A SuperMinds 2014 Talk by Tim Verbelen (iMinds - IBCN – UGent). Currently Cloud Computing is a hot topic in computer science. Recently, with the rising popularity of wearable and smart devices, resources are not only clustered in datacenters, but are also present everywhere around you: Instead of a distant Cloud you are surrounded by a Fog. However, since the beginning of computer networks, people already had the vision of intelligent interconnected devices everywhere. Are we there yet, and what are the challenges still to be tackled?

1. When Clouds become Fog
Tim Verbelen
iMinds – IBCN - UGent

4. Computer networks have the ability
to bring the power of large machines
to work on a single problem
and to provide reliable computer services
to large populations
- G.C. Bell et al., IEEE Computer, 1970
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5. SCALE

6. 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Over 6 billion devices are connected to the Internet
10
20 billion
devices

7. HETeROGENeITY

8. Heterogeneity?

10. H A
O S
C

13. History repeats itself
Roman Empire, 117 A.D.

15. Insanity is doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results
- Albert Einstein
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