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Nobody’s going to tear down the Internet and rebuild it from scratch, but academics at Stanford University are imagining what the new blueprint would look like if they did and they hope their work will lead to an Internet that works better in 20 years than it does today.

The paper discusses a research program for a clean slate design of a “Future Internet” undertaken by Bell Labs in cooperation with a consortium of major European operators, manufacturers, and academia. The research cooperation explores innovative solutions in architectural design, virtualization, and generic connectivity in order to create a future “network of information.” We describe high-level goals and identify technical requirements and the expected business opportunities of this initiative. A basic idea for a new networking concept—the “generic path”—is outlined as an example of how to realize this in the future.

We believe that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure. Further, we believe the Internet’s shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and “backward-compatible” style of academic and industrial networking research. The proposed program will focus on unconventional, bold, and long-term research that tries to break the network’s ossification. To this end, the research program can be characterized by two research questions: “With what we know today, if we were to start again with a clean slate, how would we design a global communications infrastructure?”, and “How should the Internet look in 15 years?” We will measure our success in the long-term: We intend to look back in 15 years time and see significant impact from our program.

Many believe that it is impossible to resolve the challenges facing today's Internet without rethinking the fundamental assumptions and design decisions underlying its current architecture. Therefo...

Scientists throughout the world are looking at a large-scale overhaul of some basic Internet elements to eliminate the need to constantly create workarounds to meet the challenges of coping with technology changes.

Scientists worried about intruders and military threats, but they didn’t anticipate that the network’s users would attack one another.

When photos of Google's mystery "Pluto Switch" appeared on the web early last year, it seemed like something from another world -- and not just because Google called it the Pluto Switch. But as alien as the Pluto Switch may seem, it's very much a sign of where the rest of the computer networking world is moving.

Three years ago, a top Google engineer named Vijay Gill was asked what he would do if someone gave him a magic wand. Gill hesitated before answering. And when he did answer, he was coy. But he seemed to say that he would build a single system that could automatically and instantly juggle information across all of Google's data centers -- and he seemed to say that Google had already built one.

Much like the engineering team that created it, Google Spanner is something that stretches across the globe while behaving as if it's all in one place. Unveiled this fall after years of hints and rumors, it's the first worldwide database worthy of the name -- a database designed to seamlessly operate across hundreds of data centers and millions of machines and trillions of rows of information.

Steven Levy is the first reporter to ever set foot in a Google data center. And in telling the tale, he has a wonderful way of making you feel like you were there too. But as Levy points out at the end of his piece, Google still views its data center empire as one of its most important advantages over the online competition, and it's still determined to keep its latest technology hidden from rivals.

For a decade, Google has been building the networking equipment that runs its online empire in secret. Today, it's raising the curtain.

Google treats its infrastructure like a state secret, so Google czar of infrastructure Urs Hölzle rarely ventures out into the public to speak about it. Today is one of those rare days. At the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California, Hölzle is announcing that Google essentially has remade a major part of its massive internal network, providing the company a bonanza in savings and efficiency. Google has done this by brashly adopting a new and radical open-source technology called OpenFlow.

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Google Cloud recently announced different improvements to their managed databases. The cloud provider introduced free trial instances and fine-grained access control for Spanner to let developers try the managed service and configure access to data at the table and column level.

Make machines intelligent. Improve people's lives. Google Brain team members set their own agenda, working on everything from pure to applied AI research.

PAIR is an initiative devoted to advancing the research and design of people-centric AI systems.

To fully realize AI’s potential, it must be developed responsibly, thoughtfully and in a way that gives deep consideration to core ethical questions.

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LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation.

Understand the internals of Google Cloud Spanner and how the Cloud Spanner works with regional and multi regional.