WiFi: too much of a hassle – Alleviating Pain with Constellation
Any business traveler will recognise this: you arrive, tired after a long flight…take a shuttle to your hotel, where you queue to check in, and do all sorts of formalities including most commonly showing picture ID, having your credit card...Read moreRead More »
WSPLC 2016 Student Challenge Winners - congratulations to Remi Dubaele
Ecole Polytechnique organised, in partnership with our friends from EDF R&D, the 10th Workshop on Power-Line Communication, in the early fall of 2016. The event was incredibly interesting, scientifically, and a great opportunity to “put a face to the names”...Read moreRead More »
When prof. Rodney Van Meter asks if Ecole Polytechnique students have had a class in Quantum Mechanics ...
Read More »Today's Lunch Talk: The Quantum Internet, by prof. Rodney Van Meter, KEIO Univ.
As you no doubt have seen, some of the “recent news” regarding Quantum Communications includes the launching of the worlds first quantum communications satellite — and (very very recently) the first experimental results coming. To help us make sense of...Read moreRead More »
Yay! Bibliometrics - a 20 citations-in-8-months paper
I have previously written about how while bibliometrics may pretend to be “quantifying impact” of a scientist, they really do not. That said, it made me smile the other morning when I got a Google Scholar alert that our paper...Read moreRead More »
Stupid Mug !!!
A friend of mine handed me some corporate merchandise that he’d been given – a mug. Which came with an instruction manual – which was, in itself, odd enough….only beaten by what was written in the manual…for, I insist, a...Read moreRead More »
I guess my students are right....I'm old....
The mail-man came, today, with a plaque from the IEEE making official that I now am a senior citizen member… I guess there’s now no more denying what my students, and former students (I am looking at especially you, Ulrich Herberg!)...Read moreRead More »
Paper on-line "SRLB: The Power of Choices in Load Balancing with Segment Routing"
In waiting for the final version to appear at IEEExplorer, and on (surprisingly) popular demand, a preprint of the paper “SRLP: The Power of Choices in Load Balancing with Segment Routing”, which Yoann presented at ICDCS’37 earlier this week, is on-line for your...Read moreRead More »
Interns from Polytechnique hard at work Cisco France ...
Interns from Polytechnique hard at work Cisco France …Read More »Recap from the 2017 Cisco-Polytechnique symposium: "The future of Infrastructures: Exceeding the Limits"
Nathalie has posted a nice narrative recap from the 2017 Cisco-Polytechnique symposium, over at the Cisco France blog, with detailed articles on the four major topics which were addressed and discussed: ICN, the infrastructure of tomorrow? Artificial intelligence: its impact...Read moreRead More »
Recap from the 2017 Cisco-Polytechnique Symposium
Unsurprisingly, the second annual networking innovation and research symposium, jointly organized by Cisco and École Polytechnique, held March 20-21, 2017, was a fantastic success. Bringing together in excess of 100 interesting engineers, researchers, and students, discussions were livid and extremely interesting,...Read moreRead More »
On "The Power of Choices in Load Balancing with Segment Routing"
Today, and at this very moment (assuming that they stick to the agenda, and I did time-zone computations correctly), our own Yoann Desmouceaux (X11), along with Mark Townsley, are in Atlanta Georgia presenting the paper “SRLB: The Power of Choices in Load...Read moreRead More »
Why many Ecole Polytechnique students join the Corps d'Armement (corps DGA)?
Inquiring mind wondering … Read More »Cybersecurity: This Is Not Just Theory - by Jean-Charles Griviaud, Cisco France
Today, Jean-Charles Griviaud from Cisco France is at Ecole Polytechnique, where he is giving a talk about Cybersecurity at Ecole Polytechnique – and, is bringing an industrial perspective to what we have been treating “academically” only, so far. One of his...Read moreRead More »
Thanks for visiting, Michela Meo
Last Wednesday, Michela Meo from Politecnico di Torino paid a visit to Ecole Polytechnique – she was in town for, in her own words, “one of the small research-related things I still get to do” … a somewhat intimidating statement, given...Read moreRead More »
One more down: RFC8116 on Security Threats to OLSRv2 just out
The long-in-the-process RFC 8116 finally hit the repositories last Friday. The abstract of this document goes: This document analyzes common security threats to the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) and describes their potential impacts on Mobile Ad...Read moreRead More »
Cool: Sentient Sections and Academic Writing ...
On the long list of things in academic writing that make me cringe is – of course – the use of active form, incorrect use of insufficient biographies, and frivolous acknowledgements. I’m currently reviewing a paper for a journal, which brings...Read moreRead More »
Enjoy WiOpt 2017 at Telecom-ParisTech this week.
Our friends at Telecom-ParisTech organises IEEE WiOpt 2017 this week, in central Paris. I’ve attended a couple of WiOp’s over the years, and it tends to be excellent – albeit with a somewhat theoretical leaning – and definitely worth attending. This...Read moreRead More »
Point Gamma at Polytechnique: The Hacker Experience?
This evening, students at Ecole Polytechnique organize “Point Gamma 2017” – a gigantic party for students and others, with music, entertainment, – and, according to the flyer, something special this year…. I cannot help but wonder if this is related...Read moreRead More »
UUCP Bang Paths Live!
We’re doing pretty much everything electronically at Ecole Polytechnique these days, having over the past couple of years introduced electronic signatures on traditional paperworks (Convention de Stages, for example …) But, the other day, I actually got a physical letter, addressed...Read moreRead More »
Yes, our IoT lab
Recently, our Network Research Team@X has been acquiring widgets for building our small, but neat IoT lab, to: teach the students build test beds and experiments build IoT prototype and mostly, have fun With different kinds of main boards, radios, … Read More »Science (and cats!) rocks!
Science rocks. Working at a multi-disciplinary research university also rocks – because, it means unrestricted access to serious science publications. Such as this gem, which roughly states that my cats love cuddling up with their pet human (=me) more than...Read moreRead More »
IPv6 Container Networking, Stephen Youell, JPMorgan Chase
A key take-away from this talk: Docker does not, in 2017, run IPv6 – which is a tragedy.Read More »
How Microsoft is rolling out IPv6 in their End-User facing networks?
How Microsoft is rolling out IPv6 in their End-User facing networks? Marcus Keane, Principal Network Engineer from Microsoft, shares his experiences, in a very interaction Q&A session at the Cisco-Polytechnique 2017 symposium.Read More »Martin Levy: last year, we fixed IPv6 - now, we need to fix DNS ...
The always entertaining Martin Levy from Cloudflare entertained and thrilled the participants in the Cisco-Polytechnique symposium about how he didn’t get what the big deal about. IP4-to-IPv6 transitioning was: they’d done so, with no ill effects, and urged the audience...Read moreRead More »
Mark Townsley opens the afternoon session on ... what else? IPv6...
Mark Townsley opens the afternoon session, talking IPv6 – specifically, all the opportunities it opens when you have a large address space (IPv6) or even a virtually unlimited address space (IPv6 Segment Routing) end-to-end: Media Production and distribution, distributed storage,...Read moreRead More »
GGIE: Leveraging IPv6 from ‘Glass to Glass', Glenn Deen, Director, Networking & Distribution Technology, NBCU
Glenn Deen from NBCU gave a fantastic lecture on “Glass to glass IPv6” just before the lunch break – from idea if transforming a media production chain to IPv6, through prototyping, and to standardization push, from a content provider, Fascinating...Read moreRead More »
Nice talk on "Containerized orchestrable architecture" by Peter Bosch, André Surcouf, Cisco
Containerized orchestrable architecture, Peter Bosch, André Surcouf, Cisco France.Read More »Sören Kjellin, CTO, ChyronHego, wrapping up on IP Transformation in Media Production
Sören Kjellin, CTO, ChyronHego, wrapping up on IP Transformation in Media Production.Read More »Secrets of Media Production Revealed: Charles Lesoil, Video Engineer at Canal+
Next up, Charles Lesoil, head of video engineering at Canal+, gives a fascinating talk “Canal Factory: IP Network powered Media Production Center”.Read More »Recent lessons from Broadcast IP deployments: A Grass Valley perspective Mark Hilton, Infrastructure Products VP, Grass Valley
The first talk of today is “Recent lessons from Broadcast IP deployments: A Grass Valley perspective” by Mark Hilton, Infrastructure Products VP, Grass Valley.Read More »And we are off for Day#2 of the Cisco-Polytechnique Symposium
Mark Townsley (Cisco and Ecole Polytechnique) and Guillaume Sauvage de Saint Marc (Cisco) kicking off Day 2 of the symposium, with Guiaume giving a light talk about shapeshifting….err, #shifthappensRead More »
Maks Ovsjanikov closing the days talks by a seminar on "Multi-modal AI"
Maks Ovsjanikov from Ecole Polytechnique closes out today’s talks by a seminar called “Multi-modal AI” – and, which he subtiles by “An User’s Perspective”.Read More »Penultimate talk of the day: Advanced ML/DL Technologies" by François Courteille, Solutions Architect, Nvidia
Digging into hardware, and understanding the relationship between Machine Learning / Deep Learning, and HPC,Read More »Automated Predictive Models: AI Driven AI, Benoit Gourdon, CEO & Remi Coletta, CTO - TellMePlus
And the last talk befor the coffee break is “Automated Predictive Models: AI Driven AI” – which sounds intriguingly recursive. By Benoit Gourdon, CEO & Remi Coletta, CTO – TellMePlus. Read More »Polytechnique graduate (X09) and Facebook Research Engineer Martin Raison on "Virtual assistants: from engineering to research"
Polytechnique graduate (X09) and Facebook Research Engineer Martin Raison kicks off the discussion on “Virtual assistants: from engineering to research” Martin did his Polytechnique 3rd year research internship at Cisco Paris Research and Innovation Lab in Paris, then went on...Read moreRead More »
Now, Real-world ML/DL Deployment at Scale, James Jones, Customer Solutions Architect, Cisco
Next up, Session Chair Hugo Latapie introduces the ML/DL part of the session: An interesting talk called “Real-world ML/DL Deployment at Scale”, by James Jones, Customer Solutions Architect, Cisco.Read More »Kicking off the afternoons sestion: The Future of AI: from Deep Learning to Deep Understanding, Ben Goertzel, Chief Scientist, Novamente
Kicking off the afternoon session “A.I., THE IMPACT ON INFRASTRUCTURE” The Future of AI: from Deep Learning to Deep Understanding, Ben Goertzel, Chief Scientist, NovamenteRead More »
And the last talk of the ICN slot is “Multicast: How do we solve the ‘crying baby’ problem?”, Dr. Mayutan Arumathrai, University of Goettingen. Inquiring mind wanting to know: does the crying baby solution also apply to airplane cabins?Read More »Penultimate ICN talk this morning "Keyword-based mobile application sharing through information-centric connectivity" by Dr. Ioannis Psaras, UCL
Penultimate ICN talk this morning by Dr. Ioannis Psaras, UCL — “Keyword-based mobile application sharing through information-centric connectivity”, or KEBAPP — the acronym which, according to the speaker, won them a best paper award…Read More »Now, talk on "Mobile video for ICN" - Ecole Polytechnique graduate and Cisco researcher Jacques Samain wins the price for the shortest title this morning
Memorable quotes from Jacques’ presentation: 1+3 = 4 82% of the Internet traffic is Video …Read More »Opening the 2nd half of the ICN session: "Stream Reasoning-Based Control of Caching Strategies in CCN Routers, Prof. Dr. Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University
Read More »Last talk before the coffee break is "Temporal-spatial distributed databases over ICN, Prof. Andrea Detti, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Last talk before the coffee break is “Temporal-spatial distributed databases over ICN, Prof. Andrea Detti, Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Read More »Now up, Emmanuel Baccelli from INRIA, talking "ICN for the IoT: Energy Efficiency, Opportunities & Challenges" - and, I would assume, also a bit of RiotOS?
Now up, Emmanuel Baccelli from INRIA, talking “ICN for the IoT: Energy Efficiency, Opportunities & Challenges” – starting with a taxonomy of “the IoT:Read More »And the first talk is "ICN + Industrial Internet = Towards an ICN Cloud Architecture for the IoT?" By Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universitat Berlin
And the first talk is “ICN + Industrial Internet = Towards an ICN Cloud Architecture for the IoT?” By Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universitat BerlinRead More »
