News archive - November 2020

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Cheriton computer scientists create a Nifty solution to a catastrophic network fault

an illustration depicting a partial network partition

Partial network partitions are a peculiar type of network fault that disrupts communication between some but not all nodes in a computer cluster. And for what has recently been found to be a surprisingly catastrophic source of computer system failures, partial network partitions have not been studied comprehensively by computer scientists or network administrators.

Friday, November 20, 2020

Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais receive a prestigious best paper award at FOCS 2020 for their work that extends Yao’s minimax theorem

photo of Professors Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais have received a prestigious best paper award at FOCS 2020, the 61st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. FOCS and its counterpart — the Symposium on Theory of Computing — are the top international meetings in theoretical computer science.

Friday, November 20, 2020

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Sergey Gorbunov raises $3.75 million USD for Axelar, his blockchain start-up

Axelar, a decentralized network that connects application builders with blockchain ecosystems, applications and users, has raised $3.75 million USD in seed funding from Silicon Valley investors, including DCVC, a San Francisco–based venture capital firm specializing in deep tech, and notable blockchain companies and investors such as Binance X, Lemniscap, Collab+Currency, North Island Ventures, Divergence Ventures, Cygni Labs, and others.

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Professor N. Asokan receives best paper award from IEEE Transactions on Computers

Photo of Jian Liu, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame and N Asokan

A paper coauthored by Professor and Cheriton Chair N. Asokan has received the 2019 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Computers by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.

Monday, November 16, 2020

mmTag, toward a battery-free 5G networking device

photo of postdoc researcher Mohammad Mazaheri and master’s student Alex Chen

The main difference between current wireless networks and 5G networks comes down to two words — speed and latency.

5G networks are expected to be up to 100 times faster than current networks. And at that speed, 5G drastically cuts latency when connecting to the network, the lag between instructing a computer to perform a task and its execution. One thing we know with certainty — by delivering mountains of data at warp speed wirelessly, the impact of 5G will be enormous and it will be felt across all sectors of society.

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