ACM Seminar - Peer to Peer (P2P) Computing Speaker: Vivek Mehta Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu; timing: 6:30pm Friday Feb 14, 2003 Venue: NCST Juhu, Entrance: Free
Abstract: P2P computing is being recognised as a very important trend in the networking world. Defined as the sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange, P2P computing is enabling a new wave of applications with the potential to revolutionise the way computers are used. Napster, Scour, Gnutella, SETI@home are examples of successful P2P applications. In this seminar, we try to answer the following questions with respect to P2P computing: What is P2P? Why P2P? What is it good for? What are the various issues in developing a P2P application?
About the Speaker: Vivek Mehta is currently working as a Staff Scientist in the Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS) division at NCST. He works on projects in Natural Language Processing like Machine Translation and Natural Language Interfaces. Apart from NLP Vivek is also interested in Parallel Processing and Data Structures & Algorithms. Vivek is also a faculty for the Data Structure & Algorithms and Natural Language Processing modules offered at NCST.
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