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SUMMARY:Secure and Scalable Decentralized Computing for General-Purpose Wo
 rkloads
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DTEND:20180705T120000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Ceyhun Alp\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. Jean-Pi
 erre Hubaux\nThesis advisor: Prof. Bryan Ford\nCo-examiner: Prof. Katerina
  Argyraki\n\nAbstract\nSmart contracts are arbitrary user-defined programs
  that are executed securely and autonomously on a blockchain through a dis
 tributed consensus mechanism. As blockchain technologies have recently gai
 ned great popularity\, smart contracts are envisioned to be the instrument
  for building decentralized applications in various domains. Despite their
  popularity\, smart contracts have several technical limitations that hind
 er their widespread adoption. In this proposal\, we describe three recent 
 works that address some of the fundamental technical challenges in the dis
 tributed ledger and smart contract systems. By adopting techniques from pr
 evious works\, we propose a secure and scalable decentralized computing pl
 atform for users to define and execute general-purpose workloads.​\n\nBa
 ckground papers\nOmniLedger: A Secure\, Scale-Out\, Decentralized Ledger v
 ia Sharding\, by  Kokoris-Kogias E.\, et al.\nChainspace: A Sharded Smart
  Contracts Platform\, by Al-Bassam M.\, et al.\nTown Crier: An Authenticat
 ed Data Feed for Smart Contracts\, by Zhang F. et al.\n 
LOCATION:BC 229 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20229
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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