Hard Problems in Network Computing

The good news is that we make progress in hardware, and in software at both the infrastructure and application levels. The other good news is that there are still lots of hard problems that we don't know how to solve. This will be a tour through some of the gnarliest and ugliest things that keep the leaders of the software community awake at nights. My completely-un-hidden agenda is to get the student audience worried about some of them too, so you can spend some of your nights trying to solve them in ways nobody's thought of yet, instead of wasting your time sleeping.