New speaker and final announcement for LASER 2018 on blockchains (Elba, June)
There is one more speaker at the LASER 2018 summer school two weeks from now: Dominic Woerner from Bosch. Mr. Woerner is a solution architect for Internet of Things and distributed ledger applications with Bosch Digital Solutions, and a researcher within the Bosch Economy of Things research project. He did his PhD at ETH Zurich working at the Bosch IoT Lab and was a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative. His talk will be on “From the cloud-based Internet of Things to the Economy of Things”.
The 2018 LASER, the school’s 14th edition, will take place in Elba, Italy, June 2 to 10, 2018. The theme is
Software Technology for Blockchains, Bitcoins and Distributed Trust Systems
and the speakers (4 to 6 lectures each):
- Christian Cachin, IBM, on Secure distributed programming for blockchains
- Primavera De Filippi, CNRS and Harvard University, on Social and legal effects of distributed trust systems
- Maurice Herlihy, Brown, on Blockchains, Smart Contracts, & the future of distributed computing
- Christoph Jentzsch, Slock.it
- me, on Software engineering for distributed systems
- Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University
- Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich
Details at https://www.laser-foundation.org/school/. From that page:
The combination of advances in distributed systems and cryptography is bringing about a revolution not only in finance, with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but in many other fields whose list keeps growing. The LASER 2018 summer school brings the best experts in the field, from both industry and academia, to provide an in-depth exploration of the fascinating software issues and solutions behind these breakthrough technology advances.
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