Computer scientists at UW-Madison are working to redesign the Internet to be safer, faster and more versatile as part of a Future Internet Architectures program.
The National Science Foundation is organizing the $7.1 million program.
The main site for the program will be Carnegie Mellon University, but will include researchers from UW-Madison and Boston University.
According to the Future Internet Architectures program description, it is crucial to redesign the Internet because of increasing Internet use in our lives and the security threats that come along with it.
""It has evolved from a small scale network of networks to become integral to our lives and vital to the operation of all critical sectors of our society,"" the report said. ""The continued success of the Internet, however, is increasingly threatened by the ever-mounting sophistication of security attacks and by the lack of performance reliability of Internet services.""
