EE 547: Applied and Cloud Computing for Electrical Engineers
University of Southern California, Fall 2026
Schedule
Week 1
| Aug 25 |
Homework 1Coordination Under Uncertainty
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Week 2
| Sep 1 |
Lecture 2Virtualization. Containers and orchestration. Fault tolerance
Discussion 1HTTP Retries and Docker Intro
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Week 3
| Sep 8 |
Lecture 3Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Discussion 2Docker Basics
Homework 2Docker, ArXiv API, Multi-Container Pipelines
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Week 4
| Sep 15 |
Lecture 3Practical Cloud Computing
Discussion 3Docker Compose
Demo 3aAWS Hands-On
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Week 5
| Sep 22 |
Lecture 4Structured Storage and Query Systems
Discussion 4HTTP Servers and Containers
Homework 3HTTP Services, ML Embeddings, and AWS Fundamentals
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Week 6
| Sep 29 |
Lecture 4aSQL and Relational Databases
Discussion 5PostgreSQL and AWS SDK
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Week 7
| Oct 6 |
Lecture 5NoSQL and Distributed Databases
Homework 4Relational Databases and NoSQL Data Modeling
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No discussion Friday, Fall recess (09 Oct)
Week 8
| Oct 13 |
Lecture 6API Design, REST, and Authentication
Discussion 6SQL Queries and Flask
Homework 5Flask API with JWT Auth and EC2 Deployment
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Week 9
| Oct 20 |
Exam 1Exam
Discussion 7REST API. JWT Authentication
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Week 10
| Oct 27 |
Lecture 9Cloud Patterns: Storage, Serverless, and Coordination
Discussion 8AWS Lambda
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| Oct 30 |
ProjectDraft proposal due
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Week 11
| Nov 3 |
Lecture ProjectProject proposal meetings
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Week 12
| Nov 10 |
Lecture 7Web Interfaces: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Discussion 9Lambda + DynamoDB. JWT Auth
Homework 6Simple Frontend and Serverless
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| Nov 15 |
ProjectRevised proposal due
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Week 13
| Nov 17 |
Lecture 8Dynamic Web Applications
Discussion 10OAuth 2.0 and Google APIs
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| Nov 22 |
ProjectStatus report due
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Week 14
| Nov 24 |
Lecture ProjectProject meetings and wrap-up
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Week 15
| Dec 1 |
ProjectTechnical review and demos, 15:00 - 18:00
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Week Finals
| Dec 6 |
ProjectProject deliverables due, 23:59
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