RI: The Brown Internet Computing Laboratory

这一建议涉及发展一个创新的新实验室，用于本科生和研究生的教育和研究互联网相关问题。该实验室将确保我们的研究和学生解决当前和长期相关的问题，因为我们移动到一个以互联网为基础的世界。互联网改变了计算机科学的面貌。诸如电子商务、网格计算、点对点编程和文件共享等概念提供了新的方向。安全和身份验证等老问题变得更加复杂，同时也更加重要。其他问题，如协同工作、数据库和分布式系统，规模已经发生了巨大的变化，人们现在谈论的是数百万并发用户。使用旧的工具和环境很难学习或教授计算机科学的这一新面貌。许多复杂性和问题只有在“互联网规模”上解决时才会出现，也就是说，当同时存在数千个用户、数百万潜在用户、广泛分布的系统、多个服务器、不可靠的网络、强烈的安全和隐私担忧、黑客等问题时。现代研究必须受到现实世界的推动，并在现实世界中显示出对未来问题的作用。此外，学生只有通过使用真实的系统，才能遇到并体会到现代基于internet的系统所固有的困难。拟建的实验网际网路规模应用的实验室将适合最先进的研究和教学。在研究方面，它将提供一个框架，在这个框架中，想法可以在互联网规模上得到检验。这样的实验室将使研究人员深入了解真正的问题是什么以及如何解决这些问题，还将使他们能够验证新的方法。在教学方面，实验室将向学生展示在互联网规模和应用程序构建时出现的问题和使用的技术。会让我们提供的课程更好地为学生准备现实世界的编程和研究。这个实验室将用于各种研究项目。普及编程涉及构建一个公共编程框架，用于在开源环境中处理web服务、点对点计算和网格计算。Aurora*解决了大规模网络和基于流的数据管理问题。语言研究涉及web应用程序的语义。共价对象提供了一种在Internet尺度上进行对象共享的方法。Prooflets是一种简单而有效的方法，可以通过web验证大量小数据项。此外，我们将在本科和研究生课程中使用该设施作为实验室。更广泛的影响：该实验室将产生超出本系当前研究和教学需求的影响。我们将利用实验室作为本科生和研究生研究项目的载体，并使其成为新入门课程的重点，从而吸引学生学习计算机科学。该实验室将用于布朗大学的各种推广项目，包括面向中学女生的Artemis项目和TeachScheme！这是一个针对高中教师的项目。该实验室还将作为学术界和工业界之间的桥梁，提供一个框架，使学术界可以研究和处理工业规模的互联网问题。最后，我们希望实验室将成为未来计算机科学教育和研究的典范，我们将积极鼓励外部研究人员使用它。

This proposal involves the development of an innovative new laboratory for undergraduate and graduate education and research into Internet-related problems. The lab will ensure that our research and students address issues of both immediate and long-term relevance as we move to an Internet-based world. The Internet has changed the face of computer science. Concepts such as e-commerce, grid computing, peer-to-peer programming, and file sharing provide new directions. Old problems, such as security and authentication, have become more complex and at the same time more important. Other problems, such as cooperative work, databases, and distributed systems, have changed scale so dramatically that one now talks of millions of concurrent users. It is difficult to study or teach this new face of computer science using old tools and environments. Many of the complexities and problems occur only when they are tackled at "Internet scale", that is, when there are thousands of simultaneous users, millions of potential users, widely distributed systems, multiple servers, unreliable networks, strong security and privacy concerns, hackers, and the like. Modern research must be driven by and shown to work in the real world on tomorrow's problems. Moreover, students can encounter and appreciate the difficulties inherent in modern Internet-based systems only by working with real systems.The proposed laboratory for experimenting with Internet-scale applications will be suitable for both state- of-the-art research and instruction. For research, it will provide a framework in which ideas can be tested at Internet scale. Such a laboratory will give researchers insights into what the real problems are and how they might be addressed, and will also allow them to validate new approaches. For teaching, the laboratory will show students the problems that arise and techniques used when building applications at Internet scales and.will let us offer courses that better prepare students for real-world programming and research.The laboratory will be used in a variety of research projects. Pervasive programming involves building a common programming framework for dealing with web services, peer-to-peer computing, and grid computing in an open-source environment. Aurora* tackles the problems of large-scale network and stream- based data management. Language research addresses the semantics of web applications. Covalent objects provide a means for object sharing at Internet scales. Prooflets are a simple and efficient way to authenticate large numbers of small data items across the web. In addition, we will use the facility as a laboratory in both undergraduate and graduate courses.Broader Impact: The laboratory will have an impact beyond the immediate research and teaching needs of our department. We will use the laboratory for attracting students to computer science by offering it as a vehicle for both undergraduate and graduate research projects and by making it the focal point of new entry-level courses. The laboratory will be used by a variety of outreach projects at Brown including Artemis, a program for middle-school girls, and TeachScheme!, a program for high-school teachers. The laboratory will also serve as a bridge between academia and industry, providing a framework whereby academics can study and work on industrial-scale Internet problems. Finally, we hope the laboratory will serve as a model for future computer science education and research and we will actively encourage its use by outside researchers.