New Ideas in Networked Systems — 2026

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NINeS 2026: Pods: MIT, Cambridge MA

Hari Balakrishnan is organizing a pod at MIT, and everyone is welcome to come.

We are near capacity, and have thus closed registration. If you want to attend, please e-mail Hari Balakrishnan and Meg Farmer, and we will try to accomodate you.

Tentative Schedule

Note: The paper talks are going to be live: authors will be in attendance.

Time Event
9:00 - 10:00am Congestion and Resource management
10:00 - 10:30am Insights from large-scale measurements
10:30 - 10:50am Break
10:50 - 11:30am Dave Clark recorded talk and Q&A
11:30am - 12:00pm Security and Privacy
12:00 - 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 - 1:45pm Panel: Networked systems in the AI age
1:45 - 2:45pm Geospatial and satellite networking
2:45 - 3:00pm Break
3:00 - 3:45pm Bruce Maggs: Engineering Lessons Learned the Hard Way: War Stories from Akamai Technologies and Emerald Innovations
3:45 - 4:15pm OS and architectural support for networks
4:15 - 4:30pm Break
4:30 - 5:00pm Vern Paxson fireside chat
5:00 - 5:45pm Second panel (Topic to be announced)
6:30pm Happy hour & dinner (cover your own costs)