From Cloud to Fog

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The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
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                ***Joint Seminar***

Speaker:        Professor Mung Chiang
                Princeton University

Title:          "From Cloud to Fog"

Date:           Wednesday, 18 December, 2013

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theatre H
                (Chen Kuan Cheng Forum, near lift nos. 27/28)
                The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Abstract:

-       If "Bursty Traffic: Packet Switching," then "Heterogeneous
        Traffic: ?"
-       If AT&T charges you $10 a GB, would you still watch that much
        video on tablet?
-       If there're multiple radios on your phone, who should choose which
        one to use?

In trying to formulate the above questions and to influence industry
directions, we observe an emergent, coherent theme. In this talk, I'll
explore the interactions between economics and engineering in Smart Data
Pricing, the "rise of the clients" in wireless network control, and the
"descend" of cloud infrastructure to end users in the evolution of network
architecture.


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Biography:

Mung Chiang is the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Princeton University. His research on networks received the 38th Alan
T. Waterman Award and the IEEE Tomiyasu Award. A TR35 Award recipient, he
created the Princeton EDGE Lab to bridge the theory-practice divide by
spanning from proofs to prototypes, resulting in several tech transfers
and two startups. His MOOC reached over 100,000 students and lead to two
undergraduate textbooks in "just-in-time" style, and he received the ASEE
Terman Award for education innovations.