EE 547: Applied and Cloud Computing for Electrical Engineers

University of Southern California, Spring 2026

Schedule

Week 1

Jan 14

Lecture 1Distributed systems for ML. Coordination, Components, and Cloud.

Homework 1Coordination Under Uncertainty

Week 2

Jan 21

Lecture 2Virtualization. Containers and orchestration. Fault tolerance

Discussion 1HTTP Retries and Docker Intro

Week 3

Jan 28

Lecture 3Cloud Infrastructure

Discussion 2Docker Basics

Homework 2Docker, ArXiv API, Multi-Container Pipelines

Week 4

Feb 4

Lecture 3Cloud Infrastructure

Discussion 3Docker Compose

Demo 3aAWS Hands-On

Week 5

Feb 11

Lecture 4Relational Databases and SQL

Discussion 4HTTP Servers and Containers

Homework 3HTTP Services, ML Embeddings, and AWS Fundamentals

Week 6

Feb 18

Lecture 4aSQL and Relational Databases

Discussion 5PostgreSQL and AWS SDK

Week 7

Feb 25

Lecture 5NoSQL and Distributed Databases

Discussion 6SQL Queries and Flask

Homework 4Relational Databases and NoSQL Data Modeling

Week 8

Mar 4

Exam 1Exam

No class, Spring Break

Week 9

Mar 25	Lecture 6API Design, REST, and Authentication Discussion 7REST API. JWT Authentication Homework 5Flask API with JWT Auth and EC2 Deployment
Mar 31	ProjectDraft proposal due

Week 10

Apr 1

Discussion 8AWS Lambda

Lecture ProjectProject proposal meetings

Week 11

Apr 8	Lecture 7Web Interfaces: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Lecture 8Dynamic Web Applications Discussion 9Lambda + DynamoDB. JWT Auth Homework 6Simple Frontend and Serverless
Apr 12	ProjectRevised proposal due

Week 12

Apr 15	Lecture 9Cloud Patterns: Storage, Serverless, and Coordination Discussion 10OAuth 2.0 and Google APIs
Apr 19	ProjectStatus report due

Week 13

Apr 22

Lecture ProjectProject meetings and wrap-up

Week 14

Apr 29

ProjectTechnical review and demos, 13:00 - 16:00

Week Finals

May 3

ProjectProject deliverables due, 23:59