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The Science Seminar Series: November 16, 2006 4pm
Towards a Smarter Internet
Dr. Zhiguang Xu
Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
Valdosta State University
Powell Hall AuditoriumTime: 4:00 - 5:00pm
Abstract
Today, the Internet is part of everyone's life. In first part of this talk, we will follow the "warriors" like TCP/IP datagrams to tour the Internet and see how it works in a visualized way. On the way back, we discuss one of the promising ways to improve the overall performance of the Internet -- i.e. to equip the routers in the core of the Internet with Artificial Intelligence tools such as Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. Tomorrow’s internet will play an even more crucial role in the Global society. It will be:
- Faster (Broadband) and more Secure;
- Available everywhere, on more platforms: Making Information Society services more accessible to more people means liberating them from the ‘tyranny of the PC’. In a "multiplatform" approach, both mobile internet devices and digital television could play key roles;
- Smarter: While today’s internet is good at carrying data, it does not have any inherent intelligence - it does not understand the data it carries. The Semantic Web will change all that;
- More powerful: Grids are going to revolutionize computing as profoundly as email and the Web revolutionized communications and publishing;
- Empowered by IPv6. IPv6 is a key technology for the Next Generation Internet. Rolling it out as quickly and as widely as possible is essential to achieve the above objectives.