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Friday, November 11, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking • Current & Future Considerations in UAS Traffic Management: R&D Efforts Towards Safe Urban UAV Operations

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Kin Huat Low, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Unmanned aerial vehicles (or known as drones) are becoming popular for servicing, inspection, surveillance, and commercial activities in recent years. Such activities, however, are hindered by some challenges that are inherent in urban flight operations.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking • Ledgers, Machines, and Markets

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Yaron Minsky, Jane Street

The rise of blockchain has led to a renewed interest in the use of ledgers as a basic data-structure for building distributed systems.

But the use of ledgers to build distributed systems is a very old idea, playing an important role in both academic computer science (in the guise of state machine replication) and in real-world financial technology.