timbass
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:41:51 +0000
In the early 90’s while consulting at Sprint, I worked with Peter Lothberg, who is, without a doubt,*one of the world’s top networking experts.** I remember Peter as a super-genius who debugged Cisco router software live on the major Internet routing exchanges back then.** Those days were quite controversial (and political), and some of the commercial routing polices of the good ole’ days were the motivation for my*1997*IEEE paper on exterior gateway routing protocols.
Today, *I saw this article about Peter’s mother,* Swedish woman gets superfast Internet*- Peter has connected her to the Internet at 40 Gigabits per second, her first Internet connection!* I know my Mom would*like to connect to the Internet at*this speed if*she could filter*out all the spam, pop-ups, and other malware*that makes life on the net really exhausting at times.* In the words of my dear sweet Mom, who connected to the Internet 14 years before Peter’s mother, “The Internet Ain’t No Fun Anymore!”***
This is an area where CEP can help, and perhaps, someday, make the Internet a safer, cleaner, and fun place for folks!*** Bayesian*filtering now dominates anti-spam technology; and I*am amazed*at the accuracy of*Google’s GMail spam filters.* Bayesian techniques are also very dominate in fraud detection and other CEP-related*solutions domains,*including Bayesian diagnostic applications.*
The*state-of-the-art (and promise)*of CEP is realized when distributed applications are processed by high speed, low latency networks.***Imagine the complex processing we can do when event processing agents (EPAs) are*cooperating at 40 gigabits per second!****
On the*other*hand, think of the challenges of trying to filter out all the spam, malware, and other malicious code flying at your*Mom, or your children,*at 40 Gigabits per second!****This is one of the biggest challenges in*cyberspace,*a virtual world*where*information is transmitted globally near lightspeed, creating both opportunities and threats; and one of the reasons I remain excited*about evolving CEP to*solve some of*our most challenging event processing problems in the future.*



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