Dealing with complex systems,
WIE-KISMET Workshop on Internet Economics, CAIDA, UC San Diego, Dec. 10, 2019.
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Privacy, confusology, price discrimination, and the seeds of capitalism's destruction,
LINE x Intertrust Privacy Summit, Paris, Oct. 29, 2019.
[slides, PDF][YouTube video of talk]
The Coase lighthouse fable and the untrustworthiness of the scholarly literature,
SASE Annual Meeting, New York City, June 29, 2019.
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Trying to understand the nature of the evolving ICT world,
9th Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE 2018), CAIDA, UC San Diego, Dec. 12, 2018.
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Pricing of interconnection and just about everything else,
7th Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE 2016), CAIDA, UC San Diego, Dec. 8, 2016.
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Financialization of the early Victorian economy and the London Stock Exchange,
annual conference of the Economic History Society, Cambridge, England, April 3, 2016.
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Privacy, confusology, price discrimination, and the seeds of capitalism's destruction,
Italian Parliament's l'Intergruppo parlamentare per l'Innovazione tecnologia, Rome, Italy, Oct. 29, 2015.
[slides, PDF][YouTube video of talk]
Technology and financial manias,
workshop on Financial, Technological, Social and Political Bubbles, ETH, Zurich, March 26, 2015.
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Economically irrational pricing of 19th century British government bonds,
Finance Department, Kent State Univ. College of Business, Oct. 10, 2014.
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Entrepreneurs, promoters, and beautiful illusions: The irrational foundations
of modern capitalism,
SASE Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 2014.
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Cryptocurrencies: From the past to the future,
TEDx, Univ. Minnesota, April 27, 2014.
[PDF][YouTube video of talk]
Mathematical models: Uses, abuses, and non-uses,
2012 Heilbronn Conference, University of Bristol, Sept. 20, 2012.
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Will smart pricing finally take off?,
keynote at the workshop on Smart Data Pricing, Princeton University, July 30, 2012.
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Turing and the Riemann zeta function,
Turing Centennial Celebration, Princeton University, May 11, 2012.
[PDF][YouTube video of lecture]
Economics, QoS, and charging in the next great telecom revolution,
keynote at the workshp on Pricing and Incentives in Networks (at the
ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 conference), Imperial College, London, June 11, 2012.
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The economics of the next great telecom revolution,
keynote at Infocom 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23, 2009.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Internet traffic growth and implications for access technologies,
session on Broadband Access - Advancing on Many Fronts at OFC/NFOEC, San Diego, California, March 25, 2009.
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Future Internet: Drastic change, or muddling through?,
Future Internet Symposium at OFC/NFOEC, San Diego, California, March 24, 2009.
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Internet evolution and misleading networking myths,
Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC),
Adelaide, Australia, Dec. 8, 2008.
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The delusions of net neutrality,
36th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Arlington, VA, Sept. 27, 2008.
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The Exaflood: Managing the coming digital deluge,
Gilder Telecosm 2008 conference, Lake George, New York, May 28, 2008.
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How to live and prosper with insecure cyberinfrastructure,
Grand Opening of the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 21, 2008.
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Technology manias: From railroads to the Internet and beyond,
Big Ideas About Information Lecture Series, George Mason University,
Arlington, Virginia, March 18, 2008.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
False dogmas and real incentives on the Internet,
keynote at 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer
Systems (IPTPS), Tampa Bay, Florida, Feb. 25, 2008.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
VoIP: A small but crucial step in the evolution of communications,
lecture in short course, "VoIP State of the Art: Technical, Economic and Legal
Issues - A Pluridisciplinary Perspective," EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 2, 2007.
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Digital Rights Management: Desirable, inevitable, and almost irrelevant,
ACM DRM'07 workshop, invited lecture,
Alexandria, VA, Oct. 29, 2007.
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Too expensive to meter: The influence of transaction
costs in transportation and communication, Royal Society
discussion meeting on Networks: Modelling and Control,
London, England, Sept. 25, 2007.
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Internet economics, Internet evolution, and misleading
networking myths, keynote at ECOC 2007 (33rd European Conference
on Optical Communication),
Berlin, Germany, Sept. 17, 2007.
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Network design--What (not) to expect from the future Internet,
ECOC 2007 workshop on Future Internet Design, ECOC 2007, Berlin,
Germany, Sept. 16, 2007.
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Resource/traffic management architectures for NGI,
presentation at panel discussion at 20th International Teletraffic Congress,
Ottawa, Canada, June 21, 2007.
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Cyberspace vs. human space, and the role of cryptography and security,
RSA 2007 Conference, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 9, 2007.
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Voice and video, content and connectivity: Ancient myths and current reality,
ITU workshop on The future of voice, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 15-16, 2007.
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High-tech bubbles, technology diffusion, and how to prepare for the
next techno-mania, Information Science Colloquium, Cornell University,
March 8, 2006.
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Speculative thoughts on future (and past) network architectures,
networking seminar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 14, 2005.
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The state of telecom: Fundamental drivers of evolution,
CITI workshop on The State of Telecom: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead,
Columbia Univ., October 21, 2005.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Content is not king, Institute for Information Systems and New Media,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany, July 15, 2005.
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Content and telecom pricing in history and in the war for eyeballs,
Munich Circle conference on Turbulence in the Telecommunications and Media
Industries: New Business and Revenue Models, Munich, Germany, July 13-14, 2005.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Is IPTV.1 a waste of Internet bandwidth?,
CITI and Marconi Society workshop on IPTV.2: The Second
Generation of TV Over The Broadband Internet, Columbia
Univ., May 23, 2005.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Internet economics, Internet evolution, and misleading networking myths,
KT, Bundang, Korea, Jan. 13, 2005 and KAIST and ETRI, Daejeon, Korea, Jan. 14, 2005.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
To auction or not? Historical perspectives on the development
of ecommerce, workshop on Computational Issues in Auction
Design, DIMACS, Rutgers, Piscataway, New Jersey, Oct. 8, 2004.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Next generation network, next generation services, and
misleading telecom myths, Light Reading's Next-Generation
Services Roadshow, New York City, Sept. 13, 2004,
and Burlingame, California, Sept. 15, 2004.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Content versus connectivity and the persistent mirage of real-time
streaming multimedia, Fast Net Futures conference, San Jose, California,
March 30, 2004.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Cybersecurity and its limitations, Third Stevens Symposium
on Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Software, Stevens Inst. Tech., Hoboken,
New Jersey, March 26, 2004.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Internet architecture and governance, Internet Commons Congress,
Shady Grove, Maryland, March 24, 2004.
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The paradoxes of broadband,
OFC 2004 Market Watch, Los Angeles, Feb. 25, 2004.
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Crisis and mythology in the telecom world,
CommsDaySummit, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 16, 2004.
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The economics of the Internet,
Measurement, Modeling and Analysis of the Internet workshop,
IMA, Univ. Minnesota, Jan. 12, 2004.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Some applications of bandwidth estimation,
ISMA 2003 Bandwidth Estimation Workshop, CAIDA, Univ. California
in San Diego, Dec. 10, 2003.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical
perspectives from telecommunications and transportation,
Information Science and Technology Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena,
California, Dec. 8, 2003.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Networks, security, and economics,
Fourth Annual MITACS Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 9, 2003.
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Different types of efficiency in data networks,
Network Management and Design Workshop, IMA, Univ. Minnesota, April 9, 2003.
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Measurements and mismeasurements and the dynamics of data traffic
growth, Computer Measurement Group's 2002 International Conference, Reno,
NV, Dec. 11, 2002.
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The New Economy and old economics: What 19th century railroads can
tell us about the future of ecommerce, Management Information Systems Research
Center seminar, Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 15, 2002.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
The many paradoxes of broadband,
Moving bits: Minnesota in an Information Age, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Sept. 4, 2002.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Zeros of the Riemann zeta function: Conjectures and
computations, Foundations of Computational Mathematics,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Aug. 10, 2002.
[PDF][PostScript]
Content versus connectivity and the future of 3G,
keynote at 11th IST Mobile & Wireless Telecommunications Summit 2002,
Thessaloniki, Greece, June 17, 2002.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Provider service offerings, SLA, and pricing issues,
NSF ITR Workshop on Scalable QoS Solutions, Annapolis, Maryland,
April 15, 2002.
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Why the economics don't stack up,
keynote at the ALPSP International Learned Journals Seminar,
We can't go on like this: the future of journals,
London, England, April 12, 2002.
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The history of communications and its implications for the
Internet,
University Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin,
April 3, 2002.
[PDF][PostScript]
Bytes and bits: The dynamics of storage and Internet traffic
growth,
Gilder Storewidth 2002 conference, San Niguel, California,
March 25, 2002.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
What caused the telecom crash: Technology, business, or demand,
ISSCC2002, San Francisco, California, Feb. 5, 2002.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
NGN services pricing and the virtues of simplicity,
NGN2001, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 8, 2001.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Economics and cryptography, IACR Distinguished Lecture Series,
Eurocrypt 2001, Innsbruck, Austria, May 8, 2001.
[PDF][PostScript]
Internet growth myths,
IGI conference on Fiber Bandwidth Glut: Fact or Fiction?,
Boston, Massachusetts, April 18, 2001.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Stronger copyright protection for cyberspace: Desirable, inevitable, and
irrelevant, keynote for conference on Management of Digital Rights,
Berlin, Germany, Nov. 20, 2000.
[PDF][PostScript]
Internet traffic growth: A gale or a hurricane?,
RHK StarTrax conference, Palm Springs, California, Nov. 2, 2000.
[PDF][PowerPoint]
Internet charging,
keynote for minitrack on Internet charging of the First International Workshop
on Quality of future Internet Services,
Berlin, Germany, Sept. 27, 2000.
[PDF][PostScript]
Cryptographic abundance: Essential and (almost) irrelevant,
conference on Life in an era of cryptographic abundance, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center,
June 20, 2000.
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