Freenet: Taming the Worlds Largest Tamagotchi

Architecture and Background

Ian Clarke, Freenet: Taming the World's Largest Tamagotchi Since March 2000 the Freenet project has been the very embodiment of the "release early, release often" mantra, gaining invaluable experience of the unpredictable challenges encountered when deploying a P2P architecture on a large scale. This talk will discuss recent developments in the project including our "next generation" routing algorithm, and a sophisticated but elegant new load balancing mechanism called "adaptive rate limiting".

Vulnerability Analysis

Expect the talk to employ lots of real-world data to illustrate how theory translates to practice when looking after the world's largest Tamagotchi. Ian Clarke is the architect and coordinator of The Freenet Project, and the Chief Executive Officer of Cematics Ltd, a company he founded to realize commercial applications for the Freenet technology.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

Ian is the co-founder and formerly the Chief Technology Officer of Uprizer Inc., which was successful in raising $4 million in A-round venture capital from investors including Intel Capital. In October 2003, Ian was selected as one of the top 100 innovators under the age of 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review magazine.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Ian holds a degree in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University, Scotland. He has also worked as a consultant for a number of companies including 3Com, and Logica UK's Space Division. He is originally from County Meath, Ireland.