Date Posted: 7/05/2011

The SoNIC Workshop (for SOftware defined Network InterfaCe), led by Hakim Weatherspoon, assistant professor of computer science, brought five students from Howard University and one from the University of Puerto Rico to Cornell June 12-18 for an in-depth look at Weatherspoon's research, which explores how information is encoded into packets of digital bits for transmission and how networking hardware sends and receives those packets.