As the volume of "traffic" on the Internet grows at an enormous
rate – estimates are that it is doubling every year – scientists
in several countries have begun working to measure this
incremental growth and to devise methods for more efficient
means for future networking. One major project is EVERGROW, a
European Union-funded program involving 25 universities in
Europe, Israel and Egypt and selected high-tech communications
companies. Scientific co-coordinators of the project are Prof.
Scott Kirkpatrick of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School
of Engineering and Computer Science and Prof. Erik Aurell of the
Swedish Institute of Computer Science in Kista, Sweden. The
four-year project, launched at the beginning of this year, is
backed with a 5.6 million euro budget and involves over 100
scientists with specialties in computer science, physics and
mathematics. Prof. Kirkpatrick, a long-time research scientist
for IBM and visiting professor at various universities in the
U.S. and Europe, has been at the H