may be of interest.
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:42:58 +0530
Subject: [Announce] Talk by Douglas Comer on "Lessons Learned From The
Internet Project" on Jan 18th.
Dept of CSE: Seminar Announcement
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Title:
Lessons Learned From The Internet Project
Speaker:
Dr. Douglas Comer
Cisco Systems, VP of Research Collaboration
Purdue University (on leave)
Date/Time: January 18, 2008, 3 - 4pm in BSB 361 (Seminar Room)
Abstract:
The Internet ranks among the greatest achievements of
20th century Computer Science. The basic technology was so
well conceived that it has remained virtually unchanged
despite completely new applications and dramatic growth in the
number of connected computers and traffic. This eclectic
talk presents a series of lessons drawn from the Internet
experience that may help us better understand how to proceed
with new research. It considers the design of protocols,
general principles, technologies, the underlying architecture,
the effect of economics on networking research, and ways
that experimental research projects can be organized to
ensure success.
Speaker Bio:
Douglas Comer is VP of Research Collaboration at Cisco systems,
and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue
University, where he has spent 30 years and is currently on an
extended leave. He received his PhD in Computer Science from
Pennsylvania State University in 1976.
An internationally recognized expert on computer networking, Comer
has been involved in Internet research since the late 1970s. His
series of ground-breaking textbooks have been translated into 16
languages, and are used by professional engineers and students
around the world. For twenty years, Comer was editor-in-chief of
the journal Software -- Practice And Experience. He is a Fellow
of the ACM.
Host: Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, Dept. of CSE, skrishnam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx