Speaker
Leandros Tassiulas
Professor, Universuty Thessaly / CERTH, Greece
He is Professor of Computer and Communications Engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece and associate director of ITI-CERTH. His research interests are in the field of computer and communication networks. He worked extensively on fundamental mathematical models of communication networks, cross-layer architectures and protocols of wireless systems, and sensor networks. His contributions include among others the max-weight and the back-pressure algorithms for network control, opportunistic scheduling of time varying networks, as well as the lifetime maximization approach for sensor network design. The recent work of his research team is on future Internet, heterogeneous wireless and sensor networks, content based networking, participatory sensing and social networks, software defined networks and experimentation. He currently leads several EU funded research projects in the above areas as well as collaborative projects with industry. In the past his research has been funded in USA by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Office. He published in excess of 260 papers and holds two US patents. Dr. Tassiulas is a fellow of IEEE. He received the IEEE INFOCOM 2007 achievement award, the IEEE INFOCOM 1994 best paper award, an NSF Research Initiation Award 1992, an NSF CAREER Award in 1995, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1997 and the Bodosaki Foundation award in 1999. He received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, in 1991.He held faculty positions at Polytechnic University New York 1991-95 and University of Maryland 1995-2001. He has been a visiting researcher with IBM T.J. Watson research laboratory and he consults regularly with industry.
Title: Internet: Art and Science
Abstract:
Over the last years the Internet evolved from the basic communication infrastructure that integrates all communication technologies, to a service and interaction platform that permeates almost every facet of human activity in business, entertainment, personal life, scientific endeavors etc.
New fundamental questions in seemingly remote disciplines like sociology, anthropology, law, political science and humanities are raised because of that development while fundamental notions like private vs public should be revisited.Internet researchers and designers should take novel viewpoints in shaping internet evolution in accordance to the current needs and expectations of the society, that go well beyond pushing bits around effectively.
EINS, a Network of Excellence on Internet Science is a recent initiative of EU in its FP7 program attempting to address the above issues. In the current talk we will present our vision on the above topics in the context of EINS and will discuss the related research thrusts and activities.
