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Weekly Paper Notes — the Seminal Paper of the Week for the 2026-10-03 digest. Area: Networking / Systems. Authors: Van Jacobson (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), with Michael J. Karels (UC Berkeley) on the revised version Published: Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM ‘88, Stanford, August 1988; Computer Communication Review 18(4), pp. 314–329. DOI: 10.1145/52324.52356 Why the paper still matters In October 1986 the link between Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and UC Berkeley, about 400 yards apart and three gateway hops, went from 32 kbit/s to 40 bit/s....

Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-08-01 CS paper digest. Area: Systems / Networking. Authors: Evyatar Cohen, Jose Yallouz, Mark Silberstein, Isaac Keslassy (Technion); Alexander Shpiner (NVIDIA); Sylvia Ratnasamy, Isaac Keslassy (UC Berkeley) arXiv: 2607.26340 · PDF TL;DR Mixture-of-Experts models route each token to a small subset of experts, which turns every MoE layer into a highly skewed all-to-all communication phase across the GPU fabric....