CS294-35:
Cell Phones as a Computing Platform
Tu/Th 12:30-2 in 310 Soda
Spring 2010, CCN: 26809
3
Units
Cellphones are the most successful
technology ever, with over 3B users worldwide. Thanks to Moore's Law the
modern cellphone is actually more powerful than early PCs and yet only recently
have phones been taken seriously as computers.
The purpose of this
class is to create a community of phone programmers at
UC
Berkeley and to enable a new platform for a broad range of
research. We will focus mostly on open-source phones, aim for a single
code repository for the class, and promote not only code sharing but the
creation
of an infrastructure for new applications and future research. The first
part of
the class will focus on understanding the phones and developing or
porting basic tools and libraries. The second part and most of the
grade will be based on an extended group project on a real phone (or phones)
with a demo at the end. A wide range of topics will be allowed,
including networking, VoIP or video, sensor integration, camera projects, core
OS or DB, UI/HCI and
developing region projects.
Students should have reasonable programming
skills if they intend to take the class for a grade. Non-programmers may
be able to audit or possibly take the class pass/fail.
The format will be
one lecture (Tuesdays) and one extended discussion each week
(Thursdays).
The specific schedule will be posted on a wiki page, coming
soon.
Intro lecture materials:
WIRED
article on the history of the iPhone
random video of
N800
lecture notes
(TBD)