Digital Trust and Decentralization
Date
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 09:00 - 10:00
Speaker
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias (EPFL)
Location
Mondi Seminar Room 2, Central Building
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar
Host
Krzysztof Pietrzak
Contact
In the last decades, computing managed to scale societies and bring everyone closer. We live in an era of efficiency and speed.
Speed, however, is the enemy of trust. Trust needs friction and time to be built.
In this talk, we are going to explore the evolution of trust and investigate the latest explosion of interest in digital and decentralized trust technologies.
To this end, I am going to present both theoretical and practical advancements of my research in the last few years focusing on Byzantine Fault Tolerant systems and algorithms, answering questions such as: how can we get scalable decentralized systems able to support the current financial ecosystems, and how can we scavenge randomness from multiple semi-trustworthy players to run publicly-verifiable lotteries or to audit elections?