Keynote by Prof. Jain

A pretty good joke:
         Professor traveled a lot before. He is now Touring complete

The Catch-up Game:

• Is networking still hot or should I change? Yes it is.
• Almost all areas of computing and most-valued companies are network-based.
• Is the technology I am working on, succeed? 
• To succeed: Low cost, Killer Application, Coexistence with legacy, Timely completion,                       Promised Performance, Manageability, Interoperability 
• Transition strategy is very important for any tech. to succeed. Clean slate solutions are not ideal.
• Professor's own initial work on Congestion Control
• What to do when a packet is dropped?
• How often do you go up?
• What is a fair allocation?
• How to achieve fairness and efficiency? AIMD.
• What is required to make an impact?
• Select the right research problem. Watch for and adapt to paradigm shifts and hype cycles (Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech 2017). Bring it to completion (from development to product).
• Every person is a company. You need an idea, development, marketing and sales capabilities. Diversify your research and measure success by adoption. 
• Don't be let down by failures. Rejections lead to improvements.
• If you are too deep in one area, you cannot move fast enough with the changing world.
• Recent research trends
• Micro-Cloud Computing
• "cloud = virtual resources" these days
• Micro-services -> Applications distributed over multiple small clouds
• Software Defined Multi-Cloud
• SDN allows us to manage a large number of routers. Extend this to clouds
• OpenADN Multi-Cloud Management
• Security in IoT

• DEFCON is a major security conference with a lot of hackers and security agency personnel. If you want a job in security, this is where you need to go
  
• Blockchains
• Make everything decentralized with no central point of control. 
• Apply that to networking applications (Decentralized DNS, CAs)

Questions:

Q: How do you know that the impact is positive/negative for a candidate.

A: As long as you make at least one or two positive, you will be remembered and will be a success