Fun in the Sun on Roosevelt Island
The IC3 2018 Spring Retreat was on May 10 at Cornell Tech in NYC. After the event, many faced the late afternoon sun for a photo. Pictured from the lower right clockwise are IC3 professors and session chairs, Prof. Sarah Meiklejohn, University College London (UCL) and Prof. Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, with PhD student Sarah Azouvi, UCL, Libby Kent, JP Morgan, Chris Ramming, VMware, Virgil Griffith, Ethereum, Patrick McCorry, UCL, and Mike DiPetrillo, VMware.
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In addition to our Boot Camps and Working Group meetings, IC3 faculty, students and industry members gather at IC3 Retreats to discuss the major technical challenges, issues and innovative solutions to widespread blockchain adoption.
Pictured left to right at the 2018 Spring Retreat, are Yorke Rhodes (Microsoft), Mike DiPetrillo (VMware), Shaul Kfir (Digital Asset), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Bob McElrath (Fidelity), Salman Baset (IBM), Mic Bowman (Intel), Prof. Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell). Photo was taken at the break after Session 5 – “Pain Points and Hot Topics on the Path to Production”.
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Will Cryptocurrencies Spy on Us or Set Us Free?  by PBS - Nova Next on February 15, 2018

The Wired Guide To Bitcoin  by Wired on February 01, 2018



Bitcoin’s utopia has failed as big players hold all the power  by New Scientist on January 17, 2018

A Guide to the World Bitcoin Created  by Scientific American on January 10, 2018

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The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) 
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The IC3 2018 Spring Retreat attendees gathered for a group photo at the end of the day in the lobby of the Tata Innovation Center, on May 10 at Cornell Tech in NYC.