September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
391 pages
12h 39m
English
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Notes
1. Ashlee Vance, “The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 3, 2011. www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_11/b4219052599182.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories.
2. NIST Tech Beat, “Final Version of NIST Cloud Computing Definition Published,” Information Technology Laboratory, October 25, 2011. www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-102511.cfm.
3. Tony Chan, “Full Interview: AT&T’s Joe Weinman,” GreenTelecomLive, March 16, 2009. www.greentelecomlive.com/2009/03/16/full-interview-att%E2%80%99s-joe-weinman/.
4. For the mathematical foundation, see Joe Weinman, “Axiomatic Cloud Theory,” Working Paper, July 29, 2011, www.joeweinman.com/Resources/Joe_Weinman_Axiomatic_Cloud_Theory.pdf; for computational complexity proof, see Joe Weinman, “Cloud Computing is NP-complete,” February 21, 2011. www.joeweinman.com/Resources/Joe_Weinman_Cloud_Computing_Is_NP-Complete.pdf.
5. Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler, “Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems,” in B. A. Huberman, ed., The Ecology of Computation (North-Holland, 1988).
6. Joe Weinman, “Network Implications of Cloud Computing,” ITU Telecom World Technical Symposium, October 26, 2011. www.joeweinman.com/Resources/Joe_Weinman_ITU_Network%20Implications%20of%20Cloud%20Computing.pdf.
7. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass (Lothrop, 1898).
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