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https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/01/13/princeton-partners-30m-grant-advance-internet-infrastructure
Project Pronto is supported by a three-year, $30-million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Leading the Princeton arm of the project is Jennifer Rexford, chair of the computer science department and an expert on network routing, measurement and management. The project also includes collaborators at Stanford University, Cornell University, and the nonprofit Open Networking Foundation.
The project is one of the largest U.S. government investments in networking since the creation of ARPANET, which launched in 1969 and was the precursor to the modern internet. “The scale of the project is noteworthy,” said Rexford, Princeton’s Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering. “We want to move the needle on how the internet works.”
Rexford is among the creators of a network programming language called P4, which will be used by Project Pronto researchers to program network devices and measure network activity. The programmable networks will also operate using the open-source platform Aether, developed by the Open Networking Foundation.
The grant’s principal investigator is Nick McKeown of Stanford. Other partners include Nate Foster of Cornell; and the Open Networking Foundation’s Guru Parulkar, Oguz Sunay and Larry Peterson. Peterson is the foundation’s chief technology officer and Princeton’s Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus.