The Future of the Internet
Ireland Online System Operations
Networks & Telecomm Research Group, TCD
Notes:
Currently working for Ireland Online System Operations (although this is not an IOL sponsored talk, so any subliminal advertising should be considered purely accidental)
My research is on the topic of mobile ubiquitous computing, in particular metropolitan area networks with many millions of postential internet connected devices all talking using wireless ethernet interfaces. Yes, you too can have a network addressable pacemaker. I’ll be talking more about that later in case you’re interested.
Finally, my original background is in computer science and mathematics in UCD; as an undergrad there in 1995 I founded the UCD Internet society (which some of you may know me from) which was the cause of many a failed exam in the student body, mine particularly among them.
Ok that’s just a bit of background about me so you know where I’m coming from.