SIGCOMM Networking Conference Live Over the Internet

Hui Zhang writes "The 2003 ACM SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group in Data Communication) conference held in Karlsruhe, Germany is being broadcast live over the Internet. There will be sessions on overlay and peer-to-peer networks, Internet routing and measurement, DoS, queue management and traffic engineering, with presentations by leading researchers from universities and research labs. The keynote speech on the first day, by David Cheriton, is entitled 'The Internet Architecture: Its Future and Why it Matters.' We will also have a re-play for each day's program in time periods that are more convenient for viewers in the U.S. Below is the broadcast schedule." The broadcast is using Quicktime, but the linked page addresses watching with Linux using CodeWeavers' CrossOver.

"8/27 Wed 1:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST First Day Program Re-play
8/28 Thr 3:00 am - 11:30 am EST Second Day Program Live
8/28 Thr 1:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST Second Day Program Re-play
8/29 Fri 3:00 am - 11:00 am EST Third Day Program Live
8/29 Fri 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST Third Day Program Re-play

Please check out esm.cs.cmu.edu/sigcomm03 for more details.

The broadcast is made possible by End System Multicast peer-to-peer streaming
technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University."

Comments

They're doing it fo free

[jarda]

This is really very nice. They are actually doing it for free! What has always made me upset about all these conferences in my area of interest is that they cost huge amounts of money to just start with, so unless you have some rich institution behind you, you're probably screwed (this doesn't have to apply to all of you guys, but it certainly applies to poor student in poor country such as me).

So, interestingly unlike many well known companies, these people seem to believe that information should be free. Granted, it's still not the same as actually being there, but think about all those poor people in development countries that may have some way to access to internet, but certainly have no chance to get 1000 euros to go around visitng conferences, and thus are in big disadvantage against those lucky ones born in richer countries.

IMHO, this is something, where internet can really be of great help. Now, we just need more freely accesible publications.