It is forecast that over 50 billion devices will be added to the Internet by 2020. Consequently, 50 trillion gigabytes of data will be generated. Currently, applications generating data on user devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearables use the cloud as a centralised server. This will soon become an untenable computing model. The way forward is to decentralise computations away from the cloud towards the edge of the network closer to the user. In my talk, I will present challenges, my current research and vision to harness computing capabilities at the edge of the network. More information is available at www.blessonv.com.

On Thursday 30th March 2017 at 13.15 Blesson Varghese will give the talk as a part of the PL&L seminars series.

Blesson’s homepage: http://bvarghese.staff.cs.qub.ac.uk/

Affiliation: Queens University, Belfast