BBR: Congestion-based congestion control

BBR: Congestion-based congestion control Cardwell et al., ACM Queue Sep-Oct 2016 With thanks to Hossein Ghodse (@hossg) for recommending today's paper selection. This is the story of how members of Google's make-tcp-fast project developed and deployed a new congestion control algorithm for TCP called BBR (for Bandwidth Bottleneck and Round-trip propagation time), leading to 2-25x ... Continue Reading

Ethically aligned design

The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision For Prioritizing Wellbeing With Artificial Intelligence And Autonomous Systems, Version 1. IEEE, 2016. http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html.   Something a little different for today... the IEEE recently put out a first version of their "Ethically Aligned Design" report for public ... Continue Reading