Why many Ecole Polytechnique students join the Corps d’Armement (corps DGA)?
Inquiring mind wondering …
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Cybersecurity: This Is Not Just Theory – by Jean-Charles Griviaud, Cisco France
Today, Jean-Charles Griviaud from Cisco France is at Ecole Polytechnique, where he is giving a talk about Cybersecurity at Ecole Polytechnique – and, is bringing an industrial perspective to what we have been treating “academically” only, so far. One of his…
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WiFi: too much of a hassle – Alleviating Pain with Constellation
Any business traveler will recognise this: you arrive, tired after a long flight…take a shuttle to your hotel, where you queue to check in, and do all sorts of formalities including most commonly showing picture ID, having your credit card…
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Recap from the 2017 Cisco-Polytechnique Symposium
Unsurprisingly, the second annual networking innovation and research symposium, jointly organized by Cisco and École Polytechnique, held March 20-21, 2017, was a fantastic success. Bringing together in excess of 100 interesting engineers, researchers, and students, discussions were livid and extremely interesting,…
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IPv6 Container Networking, Stephen Youell, JPMorgan Chase
A key take-away from this talk: Docker does not, in 2017, run IPv6 – which is a tragedy.
Martin Levy: last year, we fixed IPv6 – now, we need to fix DNS …
The always entertaining Martin Levy from Cloudflare entertained and thrilled the participants in the Cisco-Polytechnique symposium about how he didn’t get what the big deal about. IP4-to-IPv6 transitioning was: they’d done so, with no ill effects, and urged the audience…
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Mark Townsley opens the afternoon session on … what else? IPv6…
Mark Townsley opens the afternoon session, talking IPv6 – specifically, all the opportunities it opens when you have a large address space (IPv6) or even a virtually unlimited address space (IPv6 Segment Routing) end-to-end: Media Production and distribution, distributed storage,…
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GGIE: Leveraging IPv6 from ‘Glass to Glass’, Glenn Deen, Director, Networking & Distribution Technology, NBCU
Glenn Deen from NBCU gave a fantastic lecture on “Glass to glass IPv6” just before the lunch break – from idea if transforming a media production chain to IPv6, through prototyping, and to standardization push, from a content provider, Fascinating…
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