Title: SoulPad: Personalized Computing with Minimal Infrastructure

The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it
as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research.
This talk presents SoulPad, a new approach based on carrying an
auto-configuring operating system along with a suspended virtual
machine on a small portable device.  With this approach, the
computer boots from the device and resumes the virtual machine,
thus giving the user access to her personal environment, including
previously running computations. SoulPad has minimal
infrastructure requirements and is therefore applicable to a wide
range of conditions, particularly in developing countries. This
talk reports on experience implementing SoulPad and using it on a
variety of hardware configurations.

This is joint work with Casey Carter, Chandra Narayanaswami, and
Mandayam Raghunath.