This is the outrageous opinion I gave at SIGCOMM '16. Due to popular request, I am uploading the slides here. Note: this is humor. None of the contents necessarily represents the views of my employer(s), and in fact not even those of my brain.

1. WHAT TO
RESEARCH
WHEN YOU’RE
RESEARCHING
(IN NETWORKING)
Tenure
Marco Canini
Jon Crowcroft
All
images
in
this
presentation
are
©
of
their
respective
owners.

2. Premise
• Vision
of
the
future
of
research
in
networking
• Unlike
Jim
Kurose
and
others
who
have
failed
in
their
prediction,
this
is
guaranteed
to
be
true
• It’s
coming
sooner
than
you
think!

3. Trends

4. Velocity
of
Information
Overload

5. Conference
Presentations

6. Number
of
questions
at
SIGCOMM
from
session
chairs

7. Viruses
Brazil

8. Viruses
Brazil
Los
Angels

9. And
many
of
US
won’t
be
able
to
enter
USA

10. Networking
research
at
crossroads
Need
fundamentally
new
approach!

11. Outline
• Review
System
• Researcher
Reputation
• AI

12. Research
Impressionism
Radicals
in
their
time,
early
Impressionists
violated
the
rules
of
academic
painting

13. Research
Impressionism

14. Research
Impressionism

15. InstaPaper Publishing
mcanini
Marco Canini Assistant Professor, KAUST
Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems
Member #SIGCOMM #USENIX #IEEE
1,222 citations 2,454 followers 1,839 following

16. InstaPaper Publishing
mcanini
Marco Canini Assistant Professor, KAUST
Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems
Member #SIGCOMM #USENIX #IEEE
1,222 citations 2,454 followers 1,839 following
Benefits:
• Instant
gratification
• Only
positive
feedback
• Posthumous
impact

17. Snapstract
• The
abstract
is
your
paper
• If
nobody
likes
it
within
30
seconds,
it
disappears

18. Bootstrapping
citations
count?

19. Bootstrapping
citations
count?
• Outsourcing
to
professional
“boost
as
a
service”
sites

20. Trustnami
Trust
system
for
reputation
of
researchers
and
true
impact
of
papers
• Trustnami is
a
blockchain-­‐based
public
ledger
• It
maintains
a
record
of
all
papers
published
and
citations
• Citations
are
recorded
as
positive
or
negative
transactions
• Amount
of
transaction
is
weighted
by
the
h-­‐index
of
the
citer
• E.g.,
if
Scott
Shenker cites
you
negatively,
your
paper
records
a
loss
of
136
• Can
be
used
to
fork
a
community
SIGCOMM
-­‐>
SOSR
&
!SOSR

21. Trustnami helps
to
pre-­‐motivate
papers
• Once
a
grant
proposal
gets
funded,
it
is
automatically
recorded
into
the
blockchain
• Thus
motivation
for
the
work
is
already
vetted
• The
motivation
section
of
the
paper
is
approved
and
reviewers
cannot
question
the
motivation!
• The
results
are
also
approved!
• Disagreeing
with
the
results
would
mean
disagreeing
with
the
committee
that
funded
the
proposal
• The
accusing
reviewer’s
h-­‐index
is
decreased
based
on
the
h-­‐index
of
the
grant
committee

22. Menta:
An
AI
for
Researchers
• Build
a
Mentor
AI
using
training
set
from
Jon,
Nick,
Jen,
Scott,
Jim,
Don,
Jeff,
David,
…
• Rich
set
of
features:
• Will
tell
if
the
idea
is
new
• Create
the
related
work
and
reading
lists
• Give
personalized
recommendation
for
experiments
and
metrics
• Just-­‐in-­‐time-­‐paper
• Suggest
Sexy
Paper
Names

23. Menta:
An
AI
for
Researchers
• Build
a
Mentor
AI
using
training
set
from
Jon,
Nick,
Jen,
Scott,
Jim,
Don,
Jeff,
David,
…
• Rich
set
of
features:
• Will
tell
if
the
idea
is
new
• Create
the
related
work
and
reading
lists
• Give
personalized
recommendation
for
experiments
and
metrics
• Just-­‐in-­‐time-­‐paper
• Suggest
Sexy
Paper
Names
Avoid
name
clashes
• PISCES:
OSDI’12
&
SIGCOMM’16
• C3:
2
times
in
NSDI’15

24. What
can
I
do?

25. What
can
I
do?
• Move
to
KAUST!