How Nicolas Fontaine Is Saving The Internet From Itself
Nicolas Fontaine Joel Kimmel Fontaine, an optical engineer at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, has devised a clever way to avoid a data bottleneck. Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's class are dramatically reshaping their fields--and the future. Some are tackling pragmatic questions, like how to secure the Internet, while others are attacking more abstract ones, like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance, of course, but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come, the world will be a safer, smarter, and brighter place.--The Editors Nicolas Fontaine Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Achievement Saving the Internet from itself Nearly all communications data-Web, phone, television-runs through a network of fiber-optic cables. For now, that's fine. But within a decade, data traffic is expected to...