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Marco Conti
Research Director and Scientific Counselor
Italian National Research Council
Research Director and Scientific Counselor
Italian National Research Council
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
From people-centric computing and networking into Internet of People
In this talk, we discuss how the convergence of the cyber and physical world, and the tighter interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices, which are their proxies in the cyber world, are driving to the emergence of people-centric computing and networking paradigms, in which the human behaviour (e.g., the human social organization) becomes a key factor in the design of computing and networking protocols. The current Internet paradigm, which is infrastructure-centric, is not the right one to cope with such emerging scenario. This calls for a radically new Internet paradigm, that we name the Internet of People (IoP), where the humans and their personal devices are not seen merely as end users, but become active elements of the Internet. IoP is not a replacement of the current Internet infrastructure, but it exploits the legacy Internet services to achieve end-to-end connectivity on a global-scale. We discuss the key features of the IoP paradigm along with the underlying research issues and challenges.
Biography: Marco Conti is a research director and scientific counselor, for information and communication technologies, of the Italian National Research Council. He has published in journals and conference proceedings more than 400 scientific papers related to design, modelling, and experimentation of Internet architecture and protocols, pervasive systems and social networks. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Online Social Networks and Media journal, Editor-in-Chief for special issues of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and, from several years, Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Communications journal. He has published the books “Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)” (1997), “Mobile Ad Hoc Networking” (2004), “Mobile Ad hoc networking: the cutting edge technologies” (2013) and “Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs” (2015). He has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award at IFIP TC6 Networking 2011, IEEE ISCC 2012 and IEEE WoWMoM 2013. In 2017, he has been included in the Highly Cited Researchers List released by Clarivate-Web of Science.He served as TPC chair for several major conferences, such as IFIP Networking 2002, IEEE WoWMoM 2005, IEEE PerCom 2006, and ACM MobiHoc 2006, and he was general chair (among many others) for IEEE WoWMoM 2006, IEEE MASS 2007 and IEEE PerCom 2010. He is the founder of successful conference and workshop series, such as IEEE AOC, ACM MobiOpp, and IFIP SustainIT.
From people-centric computing and networking into Internet of People
In this talk, we discuss how the convergence of the cyber and physical world, and the tighter interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices, which are their proxies in the cyber world, are driving to the emergence of people-centric computing and networking paradigms, in which the human behaviour (e.g., the human social organization) becomes a key factor in the design of computing and networking protocols. The current Internet paradigm, which is infrastructure-centric, is not the right one to cope with such emerging scenario. This calls for a radically new Internet paradigm, that we name the Internet of People (IoP), where the humans and their personal devices are not seen merely as end users, but become active elements of the Internet. IoP is not a replacement of the current Internet infrastructure, but it exploits the legacy Internet services to achieve end-to-end connectivity on a global-scale. We discuss the key features of the IoP paradigm along with the underlying research issues and challenges.
Biography: Marco Conti is a research director and scientific counselor, for information and communication technologies, of the Italian National Research Council. He has published in journals and conference proceedings more than 400 scientific papers related to design, modelling, and experimentation of Internet architecture and protocols, pervasive systems and social networks. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Online Social Networks and Media journal, Editor-in-Chief for special issues of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and, from several years, Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Communications journal. He has published the books “Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)” (1997), “Mobile Ad Hoc Networking” (2004), “Mobile Ad hoc networking: the cutting edge technologies” (2013) and “Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs” (2015). He has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award at IFIP TC6 Networking 2011, IEEE ISCC 2012 and IEEE WoWMoM 2013. In 2017, he has been included in the Highly Cited Researchers List released by Clarivate-Web of Science.He served as TPC chair for several major conferences, such as IFIP Networking 2002, IEEE WoWMoM 2005, IEEE PerCom 2006, and ACM MobiHoc 2006, and he was general chair (among many others) for IEEE WoWMoM 2006, IEEE MASS 2007 and IEEE PerCom 2010. He is the founder of successful conference and workshop series, such as IEEE AOC, ACM MobiOpp, and IFIP SustainIT.
Prof. Julie A. McCann
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
From Sensor Networks, IoT to the Diamond Age!
In Neal Stephenson’s award winning novel, The Diamond age, he describes programmable nanotechnology that can collaborate and form things. Today we have chirping, self-organising, adaptive and intelligent tiny computers that are beginning to enter both the market and people’s homes, performing various monitoring and control duties. From self-drive cars to the walls of modern office blocks, these simple devices are talking to each other in intelligent ways, mimicking the collective behaviour of insect colonies to overcome individual failures or changes in the local environment. After two decades as an academic pursuit, there is now a strong belief that these could enable whole new programmable architectures, where processing power is pushed out to these small devices in the field. But are we getting ahead of ourselves? Whilst the technology advances, underlying research into their behaviours, security, reliability and resistance to failure mustn’t be left behind. In this talk Julie McCann will introduce some of her work in this field and discuss the possibility of a technological trajectory towards the aforementioned Diamond Age.
Biography: Julie A. McCann is a Professor in Computer Systems at Imperial College. Her research centres on highly decentralized and self-organizing scalable algorithms for spatial computing systems e.g. wireless sensing networks. She leads both the Adaptive Embedded Systems Engineering Research Group and the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Cities, and is currently working with NEC and others on substantive smart city projects. She has received significant funding though bodies such as the UK’s EPSRC, TSB and NERC as well as various international funds, and is an elected peer for the EPSRC. She has actively served on, and chaired, many conference committees and is currently Associative Editor for the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. She is a Fellow of the BCS.
