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Artificial Intelligence, Brains, Networks, Bugs, and Complexity

As a Computer Science graduate student in the late 70s/early 80s, I often wondered what would happen if the problems that  would later come to be known as the  “AI-complete” problems, which included vision, knowledge representation, natural language, and machine learning [0], were all actually solved. Would the resultant code be self-aware (whatever that means)?  Would it […]

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David Meyer

David Meyer is currently CTO and Chief Scientist at Brocade Communications, where he works on future directions for Internet technologies. Prior to joining Brocade, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, where he also worked as a developer, architect, and visionary on future directions for Internet technologies. He is currently the chair of the Technical Steering Committee of the OpenDaylight Project. He has been a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org) and the chair/co-chair of many working groups. He is also active in the operator community, where he has been a long standing member of the NANOG (www.nanog.org) program committee (and program committee chair from 2008-2011). He is also active in other standards organizations such as ETSI, ATIS, ANSI T1X1, the Open Networking Foundation, and the ITU-T.

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What is the value proposition of Standards in the age of Open Source?

I’ve been thinking about this question quite a bit over the last year [0] and interestingly a debate over just this issue has recently erupted  in the blogosphere (and elsewhere). Vidya Narayanan, who reignited the discussion with her blog “Why I Quit Writing Internet Standards” [1], calls for a “radical restructuring” of the IETF, IEEE and what […]

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David Meyer

David Meyer is currently CTO and Chief Scientist at Brocade Communications, where he works on future directions for Internet technologies. Prior to joining Brocade, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, where he also worked as a developer, architect, and visionary on future directions for Internet technologies. He is currently the chair of the Technical Steering Committee of the OpenDaylight Project. He has been a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org) and the chair/co-chair of many working groups. He is also active in the operator community, where he has been a long standing member of the NANOG (www.nanog.org) program committee (and program committee chair from 2008-2011). He is also active in other standards organizations such as ETSI, ATIS, ANSI T1X1, the Open Networking Foundation, and the ITU-T.

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