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.

You can also join us online. We will be using the livestream from 11am to the end of the event.

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 (Chair: Akshay Narayan)
10:00 - 10:30am Insights from large-scale measurements (Chair: Rachee Singh)
10:30 - 10:50am Break
10:50 - 11:30am Dave Clark recorded talk and Q&A
11:30am - 12:00pm Security and Privacy (Chair: Wei Zhang)
12:00 - 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 - 1:45pm Panel: Networked systems in the AI age
Moderator: Hari Balakrishnan
Panelists: Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT), Junchen Jiang (UChicago), Rachee Singh (Cornell), Minlan Yu (Harvard)
1:45 - 2:45pm Geospatial and satellite networking (Chair: Fabián E. Bustamante)
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 (Chair: Alan Liu)
4:15 - 4:30pm Break
4:30 - 5:00pm Vern Paxson fireside chat
5:00 - 5:45pm Panel: The Future of Networked Systems Research
Moderator: Paul Barford
Panelists: Fabián E. Bustamante (Northwestern), Alan Liu (Maryland), Aurojit Panda (NYU), Srini Seshan (CMU), Anirudh Sivaraman (NYU)