What Does the University of Maryland's Bitcoin Research Lab Do?
Those of us who have been closely following the happenings in bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry have heard about National Science Foundation's recent grant to three top universities in the United States for research on cryptocurrencies. University of Maryland is one of the recipients of the total $3 million research grant along with Cornell University and University of California- Berkeley. A lot of us haven't had a chance to know what kind of research these universities will be doing on bitcoin to receive a small fortune. Here is an insight to what the researchers at University of....
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Editor’s Note: We would like to apologize for the factual inaccuracy of this article. The University of Maryland is not giving research grants; rather, they have received a grant from the National Science Foundation so they can study cryptocurrency. Update: This article has been modified to correct a number of reporting inaccuracies that appeared in the original text. We have added an acknowledgement to research teams at Cornell and UC Berkley, who are working as collaborators on this project with the University of Maryland. Additionally, we have added an acknowledgement to Elaine Shi, who....
With cryptocurrency developments gaining stronger interest these days, several universities have decided to pursue studies in the field and even offer grants for research purposes. The University of Maryland recently opened a cryptocurrency research grant with nearly $2 million in funding. At present, the University of Maryland is already offering a course on cryptography, taught by Professor Jonathan Katz. Katz earned his Master of Philosophy in Computer Science at Columbia in 2001, and worked as a Research Fellow at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in 2006.....
The University of Maryland, Cornell, and the University of California Berkeley will be conducting cryptocurrency research backed by $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, a US government agency that supports and funds scientific research. According to principal investigator Elaine Shi, the universities will be focused on developing new cryptocurrency systems that can address "pain points" in bitcoin and other digital currency networks. Cryptocurrency Research Scope. This wide-ranging research, which is entitled The Initiative for Cryptocurrency and Contracts (IC3),....
Three American universities are set to conduct wide-ranging research on cryptocurrencies using roughly $3m in grant funding from the National Science Foundation, a US government agency that supports and funds scientific research. Cornell, the University of Maryland and the University of California Berkeley will focus on developing new cryptocurrency systems that, according to principal investigator Elaine Shi, will address "pain points" attributed to bitcoin and other existing networks. The Initiative for Cryptocurrency and Contracts (IC3) will also involve Cornell researcher Emin Gun....
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has recognized three universities for their work on blockchain technology out of 19 universities from the United States and the United Kingdom, reports The Economist. The winning three universities were New York University with a prize amounting to $10,000; University Of Maryland, College Park’s Maryland Cybersecurity Center who won $5,000; and Newcastle University winning $3,000. New York University proposed ‘the usage of a ‘permissioned blockchain’ configuration, in which a central authority admits voting machines to the network prior to the start of....