Shanghai, New York and a hot pink rabbit: January IOHK news round-up

2017年 2月 3日 Jane Wild 4 分で読めます

Shanghai, New York and a hot pink rabbit January IOHK news round-up - Input Output

Winter School on blockchain

The year got off to an invigorating start for IOHK when a team of its researchers arrived in a chilly Shanghai for the first ever Winter School on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.

The 121-year-old Jiao Tong University – one of China’s leading institutions with alumni including the former president of China Jiang Zemin – hosted the conference in step with a rising interest in blockchain in China, including in its capital of commerce, Shanghai. The winter school follows a similar event in Greece last year, the first Bitcoin Summer School, run by the International Association for Cryptologic Research.

The main hall at the university’s technology building was packed for the three-day event, with a cast of renowned cryptographers on the stage, including IOHK chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias. Professor Kiayias presented a double session on his work on proving the security of blockchain protocols. Jonathan Katz from the University of Maryland spoke on game theory, as…

Smart contracts will use code to reshape law

2017年 1月 20日 Jane Wild 2 分で読めます

Smart contracts will use code to reshape law - Input Output

Smart contracts will use code to reshape law

On a frosty Friday morning in Switzerland’s commercial centre of Zurich, an audience arrived early at the university to learn about the emerging field of smart contracts in a presentation given by Charles Hoskinson. A completely new way of quantifying concepts like trust, reputation and ambiguity, smart contracts are a digital legal system – a computer protocol that facilitates…

Introducing The Grothendieck Team

2016年 12月 10日 Alan McSherry 4 分で読めます

Introducing The Grothendieck Team

The Grothendieck Team

Hi everyone, it's my pleasure to officially announce the new team known as The Grothendieck Team! The team has been named after Alexander Grothendieck, a German-born French mathematician who became a leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. They have been committed to Ethereum Classic by IOHK in order to build a Scala client for ETC based on IOHK's

Professor Aggelos Kiayias joins IOHK as Chief Scientist

2016年 10月 21日 Charles Hoskinson 4 分で読めます

Professor Aggelos Kiayias joins IOHK as Chief Scientist

Professor Aggelos Kiayias joins IOHK as Chief Scientist

We are delighted to announce that Professor

Aggelos Kiayias
, professor in cryptography at the University of Edinburgh, has joined IOHK as Chief Scientist.

Prof Kiayias is the pre-eminent academic in the field of blockchain security. He has produced pioneering work providing the rigorous analysis necessary to secure…

IOHK | Latvia. Executive update

2016年 10月 19日 Jeremy Wood 3 分で読めます

IOHK | Latvia, Executive update - Input Output HongKong

IOHK | Latvia. Executive update

For some of the IOHK team it was their first time meeting in person when we gathered in Latvia this month for an intensive working session to push forward several of our key projects. As a distributed company we usually collaborate remotely, across time zones, so coming together to exchange ideas was inspiring. For two weeks in the beautiful capital city of Riga, we advanced…