LivePCs: Consumerizing PCs, from Research to Product 2/1
Presenter: Monica Lam
Affiliation: Stanford University
Time: 11:15 - 12:15
Location: EE/CS 3-180
LivePC is a new platform whereby managed virtual desktops are delivered to end users using any PCs (Windows, Linux, and Mac) over the network and on USB drives. The talk describes the journey of how her research group developed the concept of LivePC, starting with research on thin-client computing, and spun out of Stanford in 2005 to commercialize the technology.