A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
First a short reminder: the deadline for submission at the International Workshop on Cloud Native Applications Design and Experience – CNAX 2016 is approaching quickly: submission deadline is on Dec. 21st! With that out of the way, we’re delighted to announce that ICCLab and SPLab are organizing the first International Workshop on Cloud Robotics (IWCR 2016) […]
We’re proud to announce that SPLab is organizing the First International Workshop on Cloud Native Applications Design and Experience – CNAX 2016. It will be co-located with the 10th IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented Systems — SOSE 2016 in Oxford. You can find more information about the workshop and the CFP on the CNAX 2016 page. […]
In the context of the Cloud-Native Applications (CNA) Initiative at SPLab, we kicked off a few months ago a seed project with the aim of getting practical experience of the most common problems and pitfalls of re-architecting a legacy web application for the cloud. Here, we report on our experiences with a specific focus on […]
The Cloud Robotics initiative was recently kicked off at SPLab. Invited by one of our collaboration partners, we attended ROSCon 2015 in Hamburg. ROSCon is the ROS (Robot Operating System) conference, dedicated to all research, development, and practice going around ROS. 2015 was the fourth edition of the event and was so crowded with ROS […]
Overview The connection between the physical world and the virtual world has never been as exciting, accessible, and economically viable as today. Sensors, actors and robots are able to deliver many physical services in several scenarios, including industrial production and home automation, elderly care, assisted living, logistics and cooperative maintenance. In isolation, computing capabilities of […]
Great news from the other side of the pond! The ICCLab Cloud-Native Applications (CNA) initiative has been awarded an AWS Research Education grant for accessing cloud resources on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Congrats to Sandro and Giovanni (yours truly) for the achievement and a big thanks to Amazon for this. The AWS Research […]
Three ICCLab members were in sunny Würzburg for the ACROSS COST action meeting last week. ACROSS stands for “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services” and our own TMB is a member of the management committee (MC) for Switzerland. For those of you unfamiliar with COST actions, they are an instrument for research funding […]
Giovanni Toffetti Carughi is a senior lecturer in the InIT Cloud Computing Lab and SPLab at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Apart from country hopping, in the last 15 years Giovanni has had is fair share of startup, academic, and large industry research experience. He graduated in 2001 from Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) after […]