Georgios Tselentis

••• Internet Science FIRE conference Ghent 15 December 2010 "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission" (georgios.tselentis, fabrizio.sestini) @ ec.europa.eu New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities European Commission DG Information Society and Media

Internet Science: what is it?
Disclaimer:
I am not an expert in Internet Science!

(Internet) Science: what is it?
Science - scientist
from scientia (latin knowledge)
Επιστήμη ( epistími)
from ( επί- ἵσταμαι ) = over - stand

(Internet) Science: what is it?
« …Thus the master craftsmen are superior in wisdom, not because they can do things, but because they possess a theory and know the causes. »
« In general the sign of knowledge (or ignorance) is the ability to teach, and for this reason we hold that art* rather than experience is scientific knowledge; for the artists can teach, but the others cannot. »
(Aristotle, Metaphysics)
*Art = τέχνη ( techni) technology

Internet Science and Technology
Throughout human history technology often evolved far earlier than the scientific knowledge on which it is based:
e.g. We passed from stone/bronze/iron age
far in advance before we knew anything about material science
But we have also the opposite examples:
e.g. atomic bomb

Internet Science: what is it?
So Internet Science is all about Internet knowledge…(or art!)
But what do we really know about Internet?

Economic transformation
Productivity gains in standard businesses
New businesses/SMEs, new advertisement paradigms, energy grids
New economic models (skype, google, apple, cloud, …)
••• Internet is not just about technology...

Social expansion
Ubiquitous access to information (copyrighted or free: wikipedias, googlemaps, ...)
Online social networking (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, ...)
Personal expression (Youtube, Flickr, …)

Psychological (and physical !*) change
Internet time (affecting workstyles and lifestyles)
Globalisation, multilinguality, AR
Online Trust
*The Shallows. What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr ISBN 978-0393072228

the present Internet: was it …
••• Two questions…
the future Internet: what will it look like?
planned?
or just serendipitous?

••• people/society Individuals/business distributed c entrally controlled Future Internet scenarios (Oxford Internet Institute Study on Technological, Social and Economic aspects of FI) Big Brother : commercial services entertainment (e.g. IPTV) DRM-heavy apolitical Universal Wiki: (user-gen. knowledge) P2P, free content blogs social nets e-democracy

Technological and Policy choices have Social and Economic impacts Findings from the MIT workshop Universal Wiki Big Brother Internet infrastructure Current architecture ad hoc/mesh, user driven Vertically integrated specialized nets Technological developments Interoperability Distributed control Generalized wiki NGN or "clean slate“ for streaming Walled gardens Security and Privacy Privacy / identity more than security Online Reputation Strong Security, proprietary Policy Light / no IPR protection Transparency Strong IPR protection Standards Open or Open source standards Multi-cultural supp ort Competing closed standards may prevail National customisation Network Neutrality Key, to enforce Just a burden

••• open standards proprietary systems privacy identity security environmental monitoring sensors/IoT customer control trust/reputation P2P IPR distributed mesh/multi-hop centralised control, clouds People / society Individuals / business end-to-end principle NGN Understanding links between technological issues and socio-economic impacts

Why multidisciplinarity?:
to understand socio-economic impacts of technology
to design networks capable of sustaining positive social developments
Multidisciplinary approach

Towards an “ Internet Science ”
An holistic approach based on scientific and humanistic disciplines
networking, computing, telecommunications, complex systems, security, trust and identity, privacy, sociology, psychology, energy, user interfaces, law, anthropology, economics, knowledge management, …
creating an “ internet scientist ” profile
The “ architects ” of the future internet
Multidisciplinary approach

Architecture… ?

What competences does an architect need tecnology / infrastructures sociology art policy / economy Life and Social Sciences

•••
Network of Excellence – 5 M€ budget
ICT objective 1.6d - Call 7 - deadline 18/1/11
Web forum http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/internet-science_en.html
Related actions http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/future-internet-and-society_en.html
Oxford Internet Institute Study on Interrelations between Technological, Social and economic aspects of the future internet
Paradiso 2 accompanying measure
Workshops:
FIREWeek Ghent, 15 December 2010
…
Internet Science - first step

NoE = Core of Excellent partners!
Effectively involving human sciences
Also in the “driving seats” of the multidisciplinary governing/advisory board
Not only as researchers but also as institutions
Define target application areas
e-democracy, energy, environment, modelling, etc.
towards an NoE in Internet Science - open issues

Ensure discipline and EU coverage
networking, computing, telecommunications
complex systems, game theory, physics
software, services, security
sociology, ethnology, anthropology, philosophy, ethics
trust, privacy, laws, economics, governance
psychology, perception, user interfaces, art
knowledge management, semantics
…
towards an NoE in Internet Science - open issues

Types of activities to be supported:
Multidisciplinary workshops / publications
Schools (in thematic multidisciplinary areas)
Researcher exchanges (between different disciplines and sites)
Contests / open calls on specific topics
Roadmapping, definition of multidisciplinary areas
Creation/recognition of new Curricula / Scientist profiles
Your ideas …
towards an NoE in Internet Science

Do not forget experimentation! “ An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby

Do not forget the experimental dimension!
Boyle’s law: pV=k
p=pressure
V=volume
K = constant
Robert Boyle 1627-1691

Network of Excellence for Internet Science
Disclaimer:
I am not an expert in Internet Science!
Thank you for your attention!
Excellent Internet Scientists

Georgios Tselentis

by Fire Conference 2010 on Jan 12, 2011

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