May 17-18, 2016
New York City, NY
Our first IC3 retreat in NYC on May 17, 2016 was a great success, with more than 80 attendees from industry and academia. The slides and video from the retreat are now available.
| Session | Speaker | Time |
| Tuesday, 17 May | ||
| Breakfast + Registration | 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | |
| Short intro and event preview | Ari Juels | 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. |
| Session: Introduction to new cryptocurrency technologies | (Chair: Emin Gun Sirer) | |
Tutorial on:
Video | Slides
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Andrew Miller | 9:15 – 9:50 a.m. |
| Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed | Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, and Fan Zhang | 9:50 – 10:10 a.m. |
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High performance and scalability for blockchains with Bitcoin-NG
Video | Slides
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Ittay Eyal | 10:10 – 10:30 a.m. |
| Mingle! | 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | |
| Session: Decentralized blockchains | (Chair: Robbert van Renesse) | |
| Blockchain analysis and hybrid consensus | Rafael Pass | 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. |
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Fruitchain
Video | Slides
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Elaine Shi | 11:20 – 11:30 a.m. |
| Fireside chat + discussions | Blythe Masters, Ari Juels | 11:30 – 12:15 p.m. |
| Lunch | 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. | |
| Session: Consortium / centralized blockchains | (Chair: Lorenzo Alvisi) | |
| Solidus: Confidential Transactions Reimagined | Ethan Cecchetti | 1:15 – 1:30 p.m. |
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Honey Badger BFT
Video | Slides
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Andrew Miller | 1:30 – 1:45 p.m. |
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Federated consensus
Video | Slides
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Robbert van Renesse | 1:45 – 2:00 p.m. |
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Verifiable Databases
Video | Slides
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Emin Gun Sirer | 2:00 – 2:07 p.m. |
| Session: Smart contracts | (Chair: Rafael Pass) | |
| Verifying information security of code in dynamic systems | Andrew Myers | 2:07 – 2:22 p.m. |
| SGX and smart contracts | Warren He, Dawn Song, and Mitar Milutinovic | 2:22 – 2:37 p.m. |
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Hawk: Confidential Smart Contracts
Video | Slides
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Elaine Shi | 2:37 – 2:52 p.m. |
| Coffee | 2:52 – 3:22 p.m. | |
| Etherscrape | Andrew Miller | 3:22 – 3:37 p.m. |
| Session: Industry perspectives | (Chair: Andrew Miller) | |
| Blockchain opportunity areas | IBM | 3:37 – 3:52 p.m. |
| A hardware company's perspective on blockchains | Mic Bowman (Intel) | 3:52 – 4:07 p.m. |
| VMware for blockchain: secure, scalable and reliable infrastructure for emerging blockchain technologies | Ittai Abraham (VMWare) | 4:07 – 4:22 p.m. |
| Session: Blockchains in action | ||
| Gyges: Criminal Smart Contracts | Ari Juels | 4:22 – 4:32 p.m. |
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Falcon Network and the construction of fast wide-area interconnects
Video | Slides
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Soumya Basu | 4:32 – 4:47 p.m. |
| Blockchain sculpture | Phil Daian | 4:47 – 4:57 p.m. |
| Retreat dinner | 6:00 p.m. – drinks run out | |
| Wednesday, 18 May | ||
| Breakfast | 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | |
| Session: 5-10 minute (lightning) talks | (Chair: Andrew Myers) | |
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A short survey on zero-knowledge about ledgers
Video | Slides
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Abhi Shelat | 9:30 – 9:35 a.m. |
| Miniature World: An emulation platform for large-scale networks | Adem Efe Gencer | 9:35 – 9:45 a.m. |
| Contract law and smart contracts | Bill Marino | 9:45 – 9:50 a.m. |
| Problem-solving sessions | (Chairs: Ittay Eyal and Andrew Miller) | |
| Group discussions | 9:50 – 11:20 a.m. | |
| Conclusion Speech | 11:20 – 11:25 a.m. | |
| Final chance for mingling | 11:25 – 12:00 p.m. |