2018 Organick Lecture Series


Maurice Herlihy

An Wang Professor of Computer Science
Brown University


October 18, 2018
5:30 reception
6:15 lecture
Location: 3550 MEK (Rio Tinto Kennecott Building – large classroom)
Free parking at the Rio Tinto Kennecott building for the Thursday evening lecture.

Title: Blockchains and the Future of Distributed Computing – Abstract


October 19, 2018
3:30 reception
3:50 lecture
Location: 1250 WEB
Title: Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps – Abstract


 

BIO: Maurice Herlihy has an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. He has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the staff of DEC Cambridge Research Lab. He is the recipient of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science, the 2008 ISCA influential paper award, the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, and the 2013 Wallace McDowell award. He received a 2012 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Lecturing Fellowship, and he is fellow of the ACM, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Organick Lecture History – Past Speakers


Directions to MEK 3550

Cross the Job Crossing bridge to get to room 3550.