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What is "content-centric networking"? It's the way to remedy a fundamental problem of today's Internet -- that synchronizing and accessing information is such a difficult task, because current networking approaches are outdated. These approaches that were designed for the technologies of the 1970s focus on moving data packets -- identified by a geographically fixed, unique IP address -- instead of focusing on the information contained in them.

Now, Van Jacobson is developing a way to address this, and hopefully, bring trust back to the network as well. Through the content-centric networking research program he leads at PARC, Jacobson hopes to help the "security disaster" that today's Web presents to eBusiness, and to enable individuals far greater connectivity than they currently experience in an environment of firewalls and restricted perimeters. With content-centric networking, individuals and the enterprise may not have to exist on "virtual islands of connectivity" any more. Join us for a conversation with Van Jacobson, an Internet visionary and pioneer who's still exploring and developing ways to bring people and information together safely, and efficiently.

Resources

Content-centric Networking at PARC

What Are the Web's Societal, Scientific Consequences?

Bio

Van Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the technological foundations of today’s Internet, and is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. Jacobson leads the content-centric networking research program at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Among his many accomplishments, Jacobson's strategy for transmission control protocols (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion -- and is used in over 90 percent of Internet hosts today. Widely credited with enabling the Internet to expand in size and support increasing speed demands, Jacobson helped the Internet survive a major traffic surge (1988-89) without collapsing. Prior to joining PARC as Research Fellow, Jacobson led networking efforts as Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems and later Packet Networks. He also led the groundbreaking network research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its collaboration with the Computer Science Research Group at the University of California.

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