Those of you interested in security (e.g. bitcoin and data) might be interested in this webinar next week.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: ACM Learning Center <learn...@acm.org> > Subject: October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on > Algorand and More Efficient Blockchains > Date: September 29, 2017 at 8:00:04 AM MDT > To: acm-webinar...@listserv.acm.org > Reply-To: ACM Learning Center <learn...@acm.org> > > ACM Learning Webinars > <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-171ccx3c8ebx01281&;> > September 29, 2017 > > October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on Algorand > and More Efficient Blockchains > > You are receiving this email because you registered for a previous ACM > Learning Webinar. As such, we consider you a Webinar VIP. > > If you haven't done so yet, register > <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-171ccx3130f8x01281&;> > for the next free ACM Learning Webinar, "Algorand: A Better Distributed > Ledger," presented live on Friday, October 13 at 12 PM ET by Silvio Micali, > Faculty at MIT and ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner. Stephen Ibaraki, Co-Chair of > ACMs Practitioners Board, moderates the talk. > > Leave your comments and questions for the live event on ACM's Discourse Page > <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-171ccx3121bbx01281&;>. > And check out the page after the webcast for more answers to your questions > from the speakers, extended discussion with your peers on Algorand, > Distributed Ledgers, Blockchain, and Bitcoin. > > (If you'd like to attend but can't make it to the virtual event, you still > need to register to receive a recording of the webinar when it becomes > available.) > > Note: You can stream this and all ACM Learning Webinars on your mobile > device, including smartphones and tablets. > > A distributed ledger is a tamperproof sequence of data that can be read and > augmented by everyone. Distributed ledgers stand to revolutionize the way a > democratic society operates. They secure all kinds of traditional > transactions — such as payments, asset transfers, titling — in the exact > order in which they occur; and enable totally new transactions — such as > cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. They can remove intermediaries and > usher in a new paradigm for trust. As currently implemented, however, > distributed ledgers cannot achieve their enormous potential. > > Algorand is an alternative, democratic, and efficient distributed ledger. > Unlike prior ledgers based on "proof of work," it dispenses with "miners." > Indeed, Algorand requires only a negligible amount of computation. Moreover, > its transaction history does not "fork" with overwhelming probability: i.e., > Algorand guarantees the finality of all transactions. > > Duration: 60 minutes > > Presenter: > Silvio Micali, Faculty at MIT and ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner > Silvio Micali recieved his Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Rome, > and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at > Berkeley. Since 1983, he has been on the faculty of the Electrical > Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. > > Silvio’s research interests are cryptography, zero knowledge, pseudo-random > generation, secure protocols, mechanism design, and distributed ledgers. > > Silvio is the recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award (in computer science), > the Gödel Prize (in theoretical computer science), and the RSA prize (in > cryptography). 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