Vint Cerf WWW 2010 Keynote

Here are the notes that Michael sent me on the Vint Cerf keynote address at WWW 2010.

“Everything is Connected” by Vint Cerf

Note: the slides from the talk are available online and you can watch a video of the talk via Wayne Sutton's livestream.

• “I’m the guy behind the underlying plumbing, not the applications. So this talk is going to be about the plumbing not the applications built upon this plumbing”
  
  
• Internet is a network of autonomous, independent systems
  
  
• Internet Statistics
• 1.8B people (26% of the world population)
• 4.2B mobiles and 1.3B PC’s
• Asia 770M (20% penetration)
  (Half of users in China)
• Europe 425M (53% penetration)
• N. America 260M (76% penetration)
• Rapid drop of available IP’s (Sometimes in 2012 IPv4 will run out)


• Major Near Term Changes
  (Nothing too surprising)
• Introducing IPv6
• Digitally Signed Address
  Registration to prevent fraud
• Sensor Networks
• Smart Grid – Appliances on the Net
• Mobiles
• Cloud Computing
• Social Networks


• Mobility
• Persistent state, disrupted connectivity (transactions mode)
• Multiple types of networks (Wifi, 3G, 4G)
• New sensory inputs from the mobiles: sound, speech, video --- Everyone can report almost everything
  in real time


• Beyond text search (Mainly
  Google applications)
• Image Search --- Google
  Goggles
• Speech recognition --- Easier
  for some tasks
• Gestures controlling the
  device (Patti Maes – see a TED talk)
• Semantic Web
• Still, a lot of dark information
  in the web
• Web “publishing” ---
  not just making the raw data available, making it available for use
  and consumption by some other applications
• Semantic “printing”
  --- Information Representations
• Creating Persistent Object
  Identifiers
• What is an object?
• Uniqueness of the object
• Interpretation “ “ “
• Authenticity “ “ “
  --- Digital Signatures (and supporting laws)
• Security Issues – both
  system and user issues
• Spam
• Viruses/Trojans
• Re-use of (poor) password
• Social Engineering – phishing,
  deceiving emails
• Human Errors (how to detect bad configurations) – incident of marking every website as malware
  in Google search for 15 minutes
• StopBadWare.org organization
  – non-profit organization that detecting sites that carry malware.


• Privacy
• Lax user behavior
• Weak protection of personal
  data by businesses and government
• Invasive devices: every
  mobile device has a potential for privacy invasion


• New Technologies
• Flow routers
• Massive data correlation
• Map/Reduce
• Every datum is a query –
  everything is related to the everything
• Cloud Collaboration
• So far, there are only “autonomous
  proprietary clouds”
• How can they be connected
  – “inter-cloud interactions”
• Send/Receive data/meta-data
  between clouds
• How to get the data “out
  of the cloud”?
• Innovative Storage
• Mixing SSD’s, RAM and
  hard drives
• Devices
• Phones, picture frames
• Internet-enabled surf board
  (true story)
• Sensor data from buildings
  and houses / smart grid


• Research Problems on the
  Internet (just a few select ones)
• Broadcast/Multicast utilization
  vs. point-to-point delivery
• Distributed/Multi-Core Algorithms
• Authentication & Identity
  Verification
• Integration of Apps
• Intellectual Property Protection
• Rotten Bits: Archiving digital
  information for (very) long range --- Opening a PowerPoint’97 slide
  deck in a year 3000


• Whole lot still to be done
  (with potentially disruptive results) on the lower levels of the
  network, not just on the application level

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