Talk by Prof. Anwitaman Datta from NTU Singapore on May 7th, 2009

Title: From peer-to-peer to people-to-people - Social Information Systems
Time: Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 14.00
Place: Knuth, SICS, Electrum Building, Kista

Welcome!

Abstract: Despite almost a decade of research on peer-to-peer systems, and much interest, potential and development of structured overlays, large scale deployment of such overlays out in the open has generally remained elusive. The first half of this talk will highlight some of the outstanding challenges for such large-scale deployment and recent results and mechanisms to address the same - including on decentralized bootstrapping, ring-less routing and securing structured overlays from various malicious and uncooperative behaviors. The later half of the talk will delve into some ongoing initiatives (occasionally disjoint from each other) to realize social networking and collaborative applications in a decentralized setting, including using aforementioned structured overlay based infrastructure.

Speaker: Anwitaman Datta did his PhD at EPFL Lausanne before moving to NTU Singapore in 2006, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He is interested in large-scale networked distributed information systems and social collaboration networks, self-organization and algorithmic issues of these systems and networks and their scalability, resilience, security and performance. He serves as a program co-chair of P2P 2009 and is one of the recipients of HP Labs Innovation Research Program award 2008.

Homepage: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/anwitaman/