Look around you. How many things you see are connected to the Internet? How many things did you buy on the Internet? How many things were produced by companies that are connected over the Internet? How many things are there that never got in contact with the Internet? Are you sure? Didn’t they even have…
There are not so many software architectures that are used as widely as the Internet. It is a fantastic architecture! It is just fun to see how well it is designed. Join us in exploring the architecture of the globe-girdling system! The Internet affects many aspects of your daily life. However, you might not know…
The Internet is a wonderful piece of software! Even though being designed many years ago, the architecture still scales and definitely showed that is is very future proof! The Internet could grow that much as it heavily makes use of the abstraction principle. Everything is encapsulated in to building blocks. Parts of the communication stack…
The Internet drives many things in our daily lives. You will hardly find a fruit that was produced without using the Internet for ordering fertilisers, or checking weather forecasts. You can hardly buy a ticket for a concert without direct Internet access through your mobile phone or indirect Internet access over a ticket office. Our…
Today we had our iLabX block course kickoff meeting at TUM. As two were missing, we currently have 12 students and can accept 14. Good news for those of you being on the waiting list! Today, Marc-Oliver explained the format, the grading, and most important: the vLab layer model with the guiding example, “the iLab.owl…
Learning how the Internet really works On June 24, 2019, Technical University of Munich (TUM) released its new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “iLabX – The Internet Masterclass” (http://ilabx.ilabxp.com/). The free course on the edX platform teaches students, professionals, and technology-interested people how the backbone of today’s digital society actually works: The Internet. The course…