Computer Science and Center for Research in Computer Vision

Thursday, November 14, 2019

  • Blockchains and Distributed Computing - Dr. Maurice Herlihy

    Research 1: 101

    There has been a surge of interest in blockchain-based distributed ledger systems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. Much of this work originated outside the distributed computing community, but the questions raised, such as consensus, replication, fault-tolerance, privacy, and security, and so on, are all issues familiar to "classical" distributed computing. This talk will survey the theory and practice of …

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