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“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
This quote from Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, is still very timely. The importance of the Internet has been clearly highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic and in recent events in Russia-Ukraine conflict, anticipated by and contemporary to Internet-mediated information warfare and cyberwar.
Yet, understanding and explaining how the Internet works and how humans use it remain open questions. Cybersecurity is dominating the priorities as we adapt to a post-COVID-19 era, with adversaries attacking devices connected in homes, hospitals, cars, etc. Visibility becomes as critical as the Internet itself, and extracting human-understandable actionable and valuable information (i.e. “explain”) from raw traffic data is crucial. In a nutshell, we need fundamental instruments to explain the Internet.
XInternet aims at studying how to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to continuously and automatically extract valuable and actionable information from raw network data collected on the network.