Internet expert to speak at Purdue April 17
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — What would the Internet look like if we started with a clean slate?That will be the topic of a 1:30 p.m. presentation on April 17 at Purdue University.
Larry Peterson, professor and chair of computer science at Princeton University, and the director of the Princeton-based PlanetLab Consortium, will be speaking on "PlanetLab: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design in Planetary-scale Infrastructure." The talk, in Stewart Center, Room 318, is free and open to the public.
PlanetLab is a global platform for evaluating and deploying network services that includes more than 600 nodes spanning nearly 300 sites and 30 countries. The platform currently hosts more than 400 experimental services, Peterson says.
"PlanetLab must satisfy a unique set of sometimes contradictory requirements," he says. "Based on our experiments building PlanetLab over the past three years, we are now able to define an architecture that satisfies these requirements."
The PlanetLab Consortium was the inspiration for the National Science Foundation's Global Environment for Networking Investigations, or GENI (pronounced "genie"). GENI was established to examine ways to create new networks that will be mobile, wireless, ensure privacy and, above all, be secure from attacks.
Peterson is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and recently served as editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. He received his doctorate from Purdue in 1985.
Source: Steve Tally, Information Technology at Purdue, (765) 494-9808, tally@exchange.purdue.edu
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