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SUMMARY:SIGCOMM 2009 Keynote Talk: Internet of Ideas - Jon Crowcroft (Univ
 ersity of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:As  researchers  we  have  a  duty  to  communicate  our   ide
 as.   As\ncommunications researchers\, we are privileged to study the  tec
 hnology\nand phenomena that are so  transforming  human  society.  We  see
 k  to\nunderstand and enhance the very tools with which  we  can  convey  
 our\ncontributions to human knowledge.\nIn Japan there is a mode of presen
 tation called\,  Pecha  Kucha\,  where\nspeakers present 20 images for 20 
 seconds each\, as a way to convey new\nexperimental thoughts effectively. 
 I am going  to  present  12  ideas\,\neach one in that spirit. Rather than
  a retrospective of my work\, or  a\nvision for a possible future Internet
  Architectures\, I want to  engage\nin what I do in my daily work graduate
 \, thinking of problems that need\nsolving in existing communications syst
 ems\,  or  simply  new  ways  to\nbuild communications systems.\n\n\nI do 
 not expect more than one or two of these ideas to  make  it  past\nfirst b
 ase\, but there is value in learning how to apply one's critical\nfacultie
 s even when filtering out bad ideas. Metcalfe's  law  is  that\nthe value 
 of the network is the square of the number  of  participants\nsince  each 
  participant  contributes  new   input   for   all   other\nparticipants. 
 In an Internet  of  ideas\,  then\,  this  value  is  only\nachieved if we
  contribute our ideas freely.\n\n\nResearchers censor ideas for various re
 asons\,  including  that  a  new\ncommunications system must have a busine
 ss case. The  Internet  itself\n(the Web\, Facebook and Twitter) was creat
 ed without any business case.\nMany startups end up in a business that is 
 nothing to do with the one-\npager or elevator pitch they presented to the
  venture capitalists.  We\nhave no business filtering out ideas except if 
 they are simply bad.\n\n\nSo here are my twelve research elevator pitches.
 \n\nCategories   &   Subject    Descriptors:    C.2.1    [Packet-switching
 \nnetworks]\,[Network Communication]\n\nGeneral Terms:. Algorithms\, Perfo
 rmance\, Design\n\nBio: Jon Crowcroft is the Marconi Professor of Communic
 ations  Systems\nin the Computer Laboratory\,  of  the  University  of  Ca
 mbridge  since\n2001Prior to that he was Professor of Networked Systems at
   University\nCollege London\, where he carried out Internet related resea
 rch for  22\nyears in the  Computer  Science  Department  on  topics  rang
 ing  from\nmulticast to active  networks\,  and  distributed  virtual  rea
 lity  to\nspectrum policy. His website is at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac2
 2\, and\nhis current projects\, publications\, and the slides  for  this  
 keynote\ncan be found there.\n\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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