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This is an outreach to keep the blockchain community aware of IC3 innovations, events, news, publications, and other service to the community by IC3 faculty, students, and partners.
Don't miss our Next Event!
Register Now
for the next IC3 Meetup
on August 30
,
in Redwood City, CA.
This is at Oracle in Redwood City (picked a central location for SF and Si Valley people). Hope many of you can make it!
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The Meetup speaker is Ethan Cecchetti (left),
The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3). Ethan is a PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell, co-advised by Prof. Andrew Myers and Prof. Ari Juels (IC3 co-Director). He is interested in a wide range of research related to smart contract programming languages, security and cryptography.
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The topic is Proofs of Replication
, which appear necessary for Distributed Storage Networks (DSNs). These are currently a big topic. Filecoin, Sia, Storj, MaidSafe, and IPFS are all trying to build variations of them, and they're being discussed as a way to reduce the individual storage requirement of Ethereum and other blockchains so not everyone has to store the entire blockchain state, but everyone can be sure that it is being stored in a correct and robust fashion.
What Ethan's team at IC3 has done specifically is identify, define, and construct a core (and we believe necessary) building block of a Proof of Replication/DSN: a Public Incompressible Encoding (PIE). Our construction is highly tunable and very efficient.
Ethan will talk about what this construct is, why it's important, and/or how to build one.
Schedule:
6:00-6:30pm - arrivals and networking.
6:30-7:15pm - presentation.
7:15-7:30pm - Q/A.
7:30-8:00pm - more networking.
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BOOT CAMP SUMMARY AND VIDEOS
IC3 and the Ethereum Foundation conducted our third
IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp
on
July 12-18
, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. This is an immersive weeklong coding and learning experience in Blockchains and Smart Contracts with professors and students, along with leading architects, developers and engineers from industry and the open source community.
We took occasional breaks from the hacking to attend talks by well-known experts in the community – and also recorded some of the project team presentations
here
. Note that some talks are pre-publication oriented and may not be posted.
The First Place project was awarded to Project Chicago led by Cornell Computer Science PhD students Phil Daian and Yan Ji. Their team implemented financial instruments for cryptocommodities à la GasToken (
gastoken.io
). For more info, please see
projectchicago.io
.
Below is their award photo from the Boot Camp Celebration Dinner.
Pictured are:
IC3 Associate Directors:
Prof. Ittay Eyal (at far left in photo) and Prof. Andrew Miller (at far right)
Team Chicago Members:
(left to right, after Ittay Eyal) Sam Apter, Yan Ji (Team co-Leader), Edward Mehrez, Phil Daian (Team co-Leader, kneeling), Leland Lee, Kersing Huang.
Ethereum Foundation:
Hudson Jameson and Vitalik Buterin (both standing at center of photo behind Phil).
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RECENT IC3 BLOG POSTS
IC3 IN THE PRESS
The list below is condensed; please see
IC3 Press
for a more complete list.
Please feel free to contact us for more info on these items.
Best,
Jim Ballingall
Executive Director
The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3)
Copyright © 2017-2018 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.
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