[CAnet - news] Van Jacobson on the Future of the Internet: Best of Google videos

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[Google has a web site on the best of their research videos.  Lots of
excellent material - but the one I particularly recommend is Van Jacobson's
talk on the future of the Net.  Anybody who is doing research on next
generation Internet and/or native XML/URI routing, repositories and peer to
peer architectures should be interested in this talk.  His basic premise is
that Netheads are in danger of being caught in the similar closed mindset of
how networks should be designed much in the same way that Bellhead
researchers were trapped by circuit switching modality. His argument was
that the current Internet is ideally designed for conversations between
devices, while what we need now is global facility for the dissemination of
information. Thanks to Richard Ackerman for this pointer -- BSA]


http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-research-picks-for-videos-
of.html

Google Research Picks for Videos of the Year
By Peter Norvig - 12/11/2006 02:58:00 PM
Posted by Peter Norvig

Everyone else is giving you year-end top ten lists of their favorite movies,
so we thought we'd give you ours, but we're skipping Cars and The Da Vinci
Code and giving you autonomous cars and open source code. Our top twenty (we
couldn't stop at ten):


Van Jacobson's talk:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&q=engedu


Today's research community congratulates itself for the success of the
internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams are the One
True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows.

Security, mobility, ubiquitous computing, wireless, autonomous sensors,
content distribution, digital divide, third world infrastructure, etc., are
all poorly served by what's available from either the research community or
the marketplace. I'll use various strained analogies and contrived examples
to argue that network research is moribund because the only thing it knows
how to do is fill in the details of a conversation between two applications.
Today as in the 60s problems go unsolved due to our tunnel vision and not
because of their intrinsic difficulty. And now, like then, simply changing
our point of view may make many hard things easy.  <

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