1. Internet Evolution Position Statement -- Future of the Internet Panel IPSJ/IEEE CS 2 nd International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Nara, Japan, Jan 31, 2002 Sumi Helal, Ph.D. Associate Professor Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 Phone: (352) 392-6845 helal@cise.ufl.edu

2. 50% Internet Annual Growth Rate

3. Internet Breakthroughs Historical Perspective ? BT1 BT3 BT2 BT4 ARPANET Experiment WWW TCP/IP and Standard Internet Protocols: SMTP, FTP, Telnet,...

4. Some Internet Evolution Aspects Sharing of data and resources Interaction and collaboration Resource discovery Resource advertisement Dissemination modes Data exchange format & presentation Accessibility

5. One View of Internet Evolution Basic Communication Sharing and Interaction Resource advertisement/discovery Global Sharing & Interaction Global Computing & Agencies Future Applications

6. Future Application Enablers (Business) Agents Super Highway (the Internet as a Platform) –Millions of agents: negotiation agents (goods, parts, real-estate, etc.), information brokers, personal agents, etc. –Agent communities: self-organizing agents, better than “agent” search engines. –Scalable, pervasive, and mobile agents infrastructures

7. Future Application Enablers (People) Collaboration Spaces (Effective, Anytime/Anywhere Collaboration) –membership in multiple C-spaces for collaboration, business, friends and family, entertainment, special interests, etc. –ubiquitous, wireless and mobile spaces –Combined Physical/Virtual Spaces (pervasive computing) –3D spaces: avatars, persistent multimedia artifacts, and coordination (workflow) –Synchronous/asynchronous subspaces –Interaction: awareness, shared artifacts, voice & simulation –Fusion: people-people, people-information, people-business (people = people OR agents)

8. SAINT Emphasis Areas CFP