[talks] Fwd: EE Seminar - December 1, 2014, 4:30 pm, E-Quad B205 - Prof. Johan Pouwelse

Jennifer Rexford jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU
Mon Dec 1 08:31:15 EST 2014


Reminder...

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lori A. Bailey <lbailey at princeton.edu>
> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:14 AM
> Subject: EE Seminar - December 1, 2014, 4:30 pm, E-Quad B205 - Prof. Johan Pouwelse
> To: "ee-seminar at princeton.edu" <ee-seminar at princeton.edu>
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Speaker:   Prof. Johan Pouwelse
> 
>                      Delft University of Technology
> 
> Title:           Anonymous HD Video Streaming and Reputations
> 
> Date:          Monday, December 1, 2014                                                                         
> 
> Time:          4:30 p.m.                        
> 
> Room:        E-Quad, Room B205
> 
> Host:          Prof. Prateek Mittal
> 
>  
> 
> Abstract:  Privacy is non-existent for 99% of all web traffic. We provide Tor-like privacy protection for the most demanding class of Internet traffic: HD-quality video streams. To date, no viable solution has ever been presented for privacy-enhanced streaming. The challenge is to scale to one billion users, the current usage level of Youtube.
> 
>  
> 
> Youtube tracks what you like, when you view it, where you watch it and what your friends are viewing. Scaling privacy-enhancing technology while retaining security has proving to be insurmountable. Many proposals exists, but no system has any significant usage (e.g. 1+ million users) or has even been fully implemented. We present the first functional fully self-organising darknet for HD-quality video streaming. The key building block is our BarterCast reputation system, indicating which users help others by relaying their encrypted traffic. Our darknet, called Tribler, evolved over a period of nine years, has a thriving user community, comes with proper unit tests, coding tutorials, and is designed to be fault-tolerant by not relying on any central server, tracker or website.
> 
>  
> 
> Biography:  Dr. ir. J.A. Pouwelse is an associate professor at Delft University of Technology, specialized in self-organizing systems and privacy-enhancing technology. His research group conducts experimental research in the field of self-organizing systems, reputation systems, crowdsourcing, onion routing and peer-to-peer technology. The methodology of the group is proving the validity of novel scientific ideas with thousands of real-world Internet users. Our Tribler software is installed by 1.6 million users, it serves as a living laboratory and testing ground for next-generation self-organizing systems. Previously Dr. Pouwelse delivered a statement for the FTC in Washington, was a visiting scientist at MIT, and spent several summers at Harvard to study mechanisms for cooperation.
> 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/talks/attachments/20141201/5ca82c93/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 11337 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/talks/attachments/20141201/5ca82c93/attachment.jpg>


More information about the talks mailing list