[HH] Bob Frankston, Beyond Neutrality - enabling a world of connected things

[Tom Metro]

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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:40:40 -0400
From: Peter Mager

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Bob Frankston will be giving a talk on Internet and IOT related issues
on Thursday Oct 16, also in E51.

A video recording of Sam Madden's June 19 talk about the Big Data
program at MIT is online at
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/ieee-seminars/videos/29556-sam-madden-talks-about-big-data-research-at-csail
.ED



IEEE Computer and Communications Societies and GBC/ACM
7:00 PM, Thursday, 16 October 2014
MIT Room E51-315
Beyond Neutrality - enabling a world of connected things
Bob Frankston

Network Neutrality and related policy issues are framed by the
assumption that intelligence is inside a network and
(tele)communications is a service. Today that intelligence is now in our
devices which can communicate by exchanging packets using any means
available. This shift in intelligence has also moved value creation
outside of networks.

In this talk I'll trace the history of this fundamental transformation
and the technical and policy implications and what it means to
"communicate". This shift has opened up new opportunities for how to
cooperate in creating a 21st century infrastructure. By paying for the
infrastructure as a common facility we will not be limited to messages
that profit intermediaries be they telecom providers or chip makers.

The IEEE itself is at a crossroads as the organization faces a
fundamental shift from a world of hardware (electrons) to one in which
value and devices are created using software (bits).

For more background read http://rmf.vc/IEEENotTheMessage or the longer
essay http://rmf.vc/ConnectivityPolicy.


Bob Frankston is perhaps best known as the co-creator with Dan Bricklin
of VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet program) and the co-founder of
Software Arts, the company that developed it, for which he was
recognized with the ACM Software System Award and the MIT LCS Industrial
Achievement Award and named a fellow by the ACM, the IEEE and the
Computer History Museum. He's a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and
MIT, where he co-founded the Student Information Processing Board and
worked on project MAC, worked at Lotus and Microsoft for a while, and is
now an angel investor and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Consumer
Electronics Society. In recent years, Frankston has been an outspoken
advocate of ambient connectivity and for reducing the role of
telecommunications companies in the evolution of the internet,
particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications. He
coined the term "Regulatorium" to describe what he considers collusion
between telecommunication companies and their regulators that prevents
change.


This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer and
Communications Societies and GBC/ACM will be held in MIT Room E51-315.
E51 is the Tang Center on the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Sts and
Memorial Dr.; it's mostly used by the Sloan School. You can see it on
this map of the MIT campus. Room 315 is on the 3rd floor.

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