The Science

The Science

A broad program of scientific research is essential to supporting the aims of the Future Internet initiative. To complement the agenda-setting activity emerging from the Bled conference, the Future Internet Symposium is a new event designed to bring together leading researchers to collaborate and contribute to the science behind the vision. Like the EU‘s Future Internet initiative, it will be multidisciplinary and seek to integrate research and researchers from all facets of the internet enterprise.

We can already see some of the things our future Internet must be: an Internet of Things, where every electronic device will be an active participant in the network; an Internet of Services, where applications live in the network and data becomes an active entity; an Internet of user generated content; an Internet of publicity, privacy and anonymity, where people and software must understand how much trust to extend to others; an Internet of mobility and ubiquity, where connectivity everywhere is expected and depended upon. All these nascent internets, and the others that we have yet to imagine, require further research activity, especially at the interdisciplinary boundaries where opportunities lie and problems lurk.