IEEE Internet Computing's "Peering" column, edited by Charles Petrie, provides a forum for provocative essays (700-2,100 words) on various topics that affect the entire Internet community. Possible topics might include how to address some of the faults underlying prevailing ideas in computing, how networking technology will need to advance once all our everyday things have digital heartbeats, or a map of the world of networking as it could appear five, 10, or 20 years from now -- a world in which we might not even recognize the Internet we know today.
To discuss a topic's suitability and to arrange for timely submission and review, interested contributors should email an ASCII message with the proposed column's title and a one-paragraph outline to department editor Barry Leiba. Please indicate in the subject line that it is an idea for IC "Peering". (If you email me directly, which is not recommended, please read the instructions on "contact information".)
May/Jun 2017
" Internet Computing Begins " -- Charles Petrie
Also available at IEEE CompSoc IC 2017 Vol. 21 Issue No. 03
Mar/Apr 2017
" The Internet vs The State " -- Charles Petrie
Also available at IEEE Explore.
Nov/Dec 2016
" Protect Data, Not Algorithms " -- Charles Petrie
Also available at IEEE Explore.
Jul/Aug 2016
" Emergent Collectives Redux:
The Sharing Economy" -- Charles Petrie
Also available at IEEE Explore.
See also this article in Portuguese as
well, courtesy of
Artur Weber.
Mar/Apr 2016
"The Proper Use of the Internet:
Digital Private Property" -- Charles Petrie
Also available at IEEE Explore.
Nov/Dec 2015
"Predictions About the Future (of Work)" -- Charles Petrie
Also available at IEEE Explore.
May/Jun 2015 "Will the Web Vanish?" -- Charles Petrie
Mar/Apr 2015 "How Badly do you want Privacy?" -- Charles Petrie and Volker Roth
Nov/Dec 2014 "The Failure of HealthCare.gov Exposes Silicon Valley Secrets" -- Charles Petrie
Jul/Aug 2014 "Is the Internet a Thing?" -- Charles Petrie
Mar/Apr 2014 "When ISPs Become Copyright Police"-- Rebecca Gibbions
Nov/Dec 2013 "The Age of DIY" -- Charles Petrie
Jul/Aug 2013 "Digital Shards" -- Charles Petrie
Nov/Dec 2012 "No, You Cannot Predict Elections with Twiter" -- Daniel Gayo-Avello
Sep/Oct 2012 "An Alternative to the Top-Down Semantic Web ofServices"-- Sudhir Agarwal and Charles Petrie
May/Jun 2012 "The P2P Wars: How Code Beat Law"-- Rebecca Giblin
Jan/Feb 2012 "Changing the World" -- Charles Petrie
Sep/Oct 2011 "Emergent Collectives" -- Charles Petrie
Mar/Apr 2011 "Why Web Services Need Social Networks" -- Zakaria Maamar, Hakim Hacid, and Michael Huhns
Jan/Feb 2011 "The Unpublicized Sea Change in the Internet" -- Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe
Nov/Dec 2010 "Cloud Computing: The
Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications" -- Paul --
-- Hofmann and Dan Woods
Also available here.
(See also "Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model")
Sep/Oct 2010 "Is Europe Leading the Way to the Future Internet?" -- Lutz Heuser and Dan Woods
May/Jun 2010 "Is Google Evil?" -- Charles Petrie
Mar/Apr 2010 "Bye Bye Agents? Not" -- Cristiano Castelfranchi
Jan/Feb 2010 "Plenty of Room Outside the Firm" -- Charles Petrie
Nov/Dec 2009 "Practical Web Services" -- Charles Petrie
Sep/Oct 2009 "The Semantics of Semantics" -- Charles Petrie
Jan/Feb 2009 "Perfect Disruption: Causing the Paradigm Shift from Mental Agents to ORGs" - Carl Hewitt
Sep/Oct 2008 "ORGs for Scalable, Robust, Privacy-Friendly Client Cloud Computing" - Carl Hewitt
Jul/Aug 2008 "ERP is Dead, Long Live ERP" - Paul Hofmann
May/Jun 2008 "The Myth of Open Web Services: The Rise of the Service Parks" - Charles Petrie and Christoph Bussler
Mar/Apr 2008 - "Collective Work" - Charles
Petrie
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Jan/Feb 2008 - "Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?" - Christoph Bussler
Nov/Dec 2007 - "The Future of Social Networking on the Internet: the Need for Semantics" - John Breslin and Stefan Decker
Jul/Aug 2007 - "No Science Without Semantics" - Charles Petrie
May/Jun 2007 - "Embracing Web 3.0" - Ora Lassila and Jim Hendler
Mar/Apr 2007 - "Unifying Reasoning and Search to Web Scale" - Dieter Fensel
Jan/Feb 2007 - "Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant Ontologies" - Martin Hepp
Sep/Oct 2006 - "Semantic Attention Management" -Charles Petrie
Jul/Aug 2006 - "Industrial Semantics and Magic" -Charles Petrie and Christoph Bussler
May/Jun 2006 - "It's the Programming, Stupid" -Charles Petrie
Mar/Apr 2006 - "Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services: Father and Son or Indivisible Twins?" - Martin Hepp
Jan/Feb 2006 - "Rethinking the Semantic Web, Part 2" - Rob McCool
Nov/Dec 2005 - "Rethinking the Semantic Web, Part 1" - Rob McCool
Sep/Oct 2005 - "Pragmatic Semantic Unification" - Charles Petrie