This week, I attended the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference in Boston.  Several of the sessions were quite good, including the P2P Networking, Engineering the Brain, and the fireside chat with Ann Winblad, who is a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

The P2P session was very objective and covered a wide breadth of issues relating to P2P, including the benefits of source and destination obsfucation, the challenges of decentralized application architectures, and and the impact P2P traffic in LAN and WAN environments.  Panelists on the P2P session included Klaus Mochalski, CEO, Ipoque; Roger Dingledine, President and Cofounder, The Tor Project; Robert Morris, Associate Professor of Computer Science, MIT.