machine intelligence & computer networking

[Rik]

Everyone

If you're not thinking hard about how to put machine intelligence to 
work in computer networking, then you're doing the wrong thing. Leave 
your robots and other anthropocentric toy projects aside and work on 
stuff that matters!

Some good pep talk: 
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/why-the-internet-needs-cognitive-protocols

A good example how the 'motor' in 'sensory-motor integration' can and 
should be taken to be more metaphorical rather than an actual motor. The 
'action' an intelligent agent on the network takes is to send some data 
down a pipe. This may eventually result in a motor action at the other 
end of the pipe but that's taken care of, plenty of people are busy 
hooking up motors to the 'net already. Who does the cognitive bit?

Cheers

Rik