by
Stephanie Forrest
Sept. 12, 2013
The Internet is, perhaps, the largest and most complex human artifact ever created, encompassing billions of technologies, organizations, and human users worldwide. It operates simultaneously on several interacting time scales -- from slow processes, such as hardware development, to data transport occurring at the speed of light. In the third of three lectures, Stephanie Forrest highlights the networks that comprise the Internet and describes modeling strategies that have, in recent years, helped us characterize the current network and predict and improve its future state. She then considers the extremes, from biological concepts that can be adapted to examine communication on a chip to simulations that help us study how social, economic, and political forces intersect with technology to shape the Internet's future.
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