[FRIAM] Fwd: October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on Algorand and More Efficient Blockchains

Sat Oct 7 00:38:44 EDT 2017

Thanks, Ed.

On Oct 6, 2017 12:28 PM, "Edward Angel" <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:

> Those of you interested in security (e.g. bitcoin and data) might be
> interested in this webinar next week.
>
> Ed
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *ACM Learning Center <learning at 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
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> *October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on
> Algorand and More Efficient Blockchains*
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> 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
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> 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). He is a member of the National Academy of
> Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts
> and Sciences, and of the Academia dei Lincei.
>
> *Moderator:*
> *Stephen Ibaraki*, *Venture Capitalist, Serial Entrepreneur, Investor,
> and Co-Chair of the ACM Practitioners Board*
> With more than 100 top executive roles, global lifetime achievement and
> innovation awards and recognitions, a few of executive chairman and serial
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> New York; Founder, Founding Chairman for Outreach, Founding Member of the
> Steering Committee for the seminal UN ITU AI for Good Global Summit with
> XPRIZE Foundation; keynote at the International Conference on Software
> Engineering (ICSE Austin USA); Founding Chairman of the Technology Advisory
> Council Financial Services Roundtable FinTech Ideas Festival (FSR: 92.7
> trillion managed assets, 1.2 trillion annual revenue); Invited Advisor to a
> board within IEEE; 14 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Global Awards, 3
> Global Gold Awards and 3 Founding Fellow Awards. Other roles include
> nominated Founding Fellow, Past Board Chair and President of the
> government-chartered Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS).
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