CS 6704: Programming Abstractions for Energy-Aware Computing
Dr. Eli Tilevich
Spring 2013

Abstract:
As mobile devices are becoming the preferred means of accessing computing
resources for the majority of computer users, the issues of energy
efficiency have come to the forefront of software design and development.
Although energy efficiency has been explored widely in the systems
community, this graduate seminar will explore programming abstractions as a
means of engineering energy-efficient software. Energy efficiency entails
fitting an energy budget and maximizing the utility of applications under
given energy constraints. Programming abstractions can help reduce the
energy consumption of a computing system. For example, following a set of
software design principles can lead to a computing artifact, whose energy
demands are more moderate than that of arbitrarily engineered software. This
graduate seminar course pursues two objectives. First, we will survey and
discuss the research literature on the subject. Then, based on the findings,
students will complete term projects, in which they will explore programming
abstractions that can reduce the energy budgets of computing systems in
different domains, including mobile applications and cloud setups.