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Just had a discussion with Vint Cerf - "father of the internet" - vice president of Google - at George Mason University. Dr. Cerf spoke and I was fascinated with his talk and what he does. He discussed many emerging technologies with a focus on Google. Google Earth, Ocean, Sky, Mars, Wave, Power Meter. Wave is an interesting concept which connects Email, IM, Social networks such as Facebook to an network. Each of these individual tools talk to each other through Wave. You can tweet about something and it will be present/available through email, Facebook , Skype, IM…etc.
He talked about cloud computing and how intercloud vocabulary & protocols have not yet been invented. Cloud computing model moves the notion from computing on a laptop/workstation to computing on a super server. Computing power can be shifted in a cloud environment to handle certain tasks providing power to do research. The challenge now is to have Google, Microsoft, Amazon…etc clouds talk to each other.
Dr. Cerf also talked about sensory networks and how data can be collected and analyzed. He touched on how environmental sensors can be used to collect data and provide feedback on the decisions we make.
Dr. Cerf concluded his keynote talk about Interplanetary Internet. He talked about the various nodes in the universe and how this information network can be accessed on earth. WOW – this was incredible.
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