Dnia środa, 1 stycznia 2014 22:38:32 Juha Nurmi pisze: > Hi! > > I read this post about decentralized search and I immediately > subscribed this mailing list. So hello all! My name is Juha Nurmi and > I am the founder of ahmia.fi (search engine for Tor) and a university > researcher. > > Right now I am trying to get funding to design a decentralized search > engine. We are proposing (me and my Adj.Prof.) a small (2-3 years) > Finnish Academy project. > > This proposal would take place in the Finnish Academy ICT 2023 > programme, first thematic call: Information security, letters of > intent, which means very short project plans. Academy mostly funds > (public) "pure research"; first planned applications are related to > virtual Internet networks and public admin applications. > > The basic idea is to investigate search algorithms and engines that do > not require a centralized crawler database and a central authority. > This raises algorithmic, security, credibility, resourcification, etc. > challenges that are interesting strategic research point of view, etc. > > In particular, we would like to use Tor network as a testbed for these > ideas in the related case studies: we will be testing this search > design by building a tor hidden service search engine :) > > The Finnish Academy will select most promising project candidates and > the final proposal is to be submitted around April 2014. > > If successful, we enter detailed planning phase in early 2014, and > submit more complete project plan by April 2014. Actual project (2 > calendar years) would take place in 2014-2016. > > I really really hope I will get this funding. This is something I > would love to do and have planned to do a long time. Funding = time.
This sounds great. Please keep us in the loop on this. :) -- Pozdr rysiek
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