Imperial College London Bitcoin Prize Fund
The Imperial College of Business London and Entrepreneurs First - a pre-seed investment programme - recently launched a competition that is designed to encourage innovation in the field of Blockchain technology. The competition is seeking entrants from a range of different departments including, business, computing, engineering and mathematics. The prizes: £3,000 for the best project, £1,000 for second place, and £500 for third. The competition will also be offering grants of up to £500 for entrants to purchase equipment necessary for the advancement of their projects. Dr Llewellyn Thomas,....
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Imperial College London and Entrepreneur First (EF), a pre-seed investment programme, have announced a new partnership focused on bringing bitcoin technology to students. Under the agreement, the institutions will support student innovation in the field of cryptocurrency, including bitcoin. The programme will be available to students from a range of departments, including mathematics, computing, engineering and business. Where appropriate, students will be encouraged to pursue bitcoin-related ideas as credit-bearing elements of their degree courses. For example, students can apply to carry....
This piece has been updated with comment from Imperial College Professor William Knottenbelt. Imperial College London has established a research center dedicated to blockchain initiatives. Announced in the university's summer newsletter, the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering grew out of previous Imperial College efforts aimed at exploring bitcoin and the blockchain. The university, founded in 1907, is considered one of the world's top technical institutes. The notice explained: "With an overwhelming response from staff and students, the Centre will now coordinate research....
Imperial College London has collaborated with Blockchain to launch the Digital Asset Research Lab. The blockchain is slated to be the future of technology, irrespective of the industry segment. As more industries continue to explore the distributed ledger technology for their operations, the educational institutions are also preparing themselves for the said technological shift. The renowned Imperial College London has taken a step in that direction by starting the Digital Asset Research Lab. The Imperial College’s Digital Asset Research Lab is set up in collaboration with Blockchain, the....
The Imperial Data Science Institute in London has an exhibit of 64 monitors with lines moving in geometric shapes representing real-time bitcoin transactions, according to The Imperial College of London website. Harry Pettit, a graduate student, recently visited the exhibit and discovered it provided a unique way to visualize transactions, according to a news story on the college website. The institute houses the world’s most advanced data visualization platforms. Pettit visited the institute to learn more about bitcoin. The institute houses the KPMG Data Observatory, which has a circular....
The Imperial College London has teamed up with Blockchain, a software platform for digital assets, to launch the Digital Asset Research Lab, according to a recent Blockchain blog post. The new lab, which has been funded as part of a three-year partnership with the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial, is designed to operate at the leading international center for ongoing research and application related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Peter Smith, Blockchain CEO, will be joining the lab’s steering committee where he will be responsible for focusing on....