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IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp at Cornell University
IC3 and the Ethereum Foundation Conducted our Second Immersive Weeklong Coding and Learning Experience in Blockchains and Smart Contracts with World-leading Professors, Open Source Developers and Students. See a summary of the 2016 Boot Camp here.
SPONSORS
We are thankful for the generous sponsorship of this Boot Camp by Chain, Cisco, Fidelity Labs, JP Morgan & Chase, Microsoft, Neural Capital, Tendermint, 21.co and Yellowstone Pathology.
COMMENTS from PARTICIPANTS
"The Boot Camp was excellent! It was a unique and awesome experience to spend the week working alongside, and learning from, renowned blockchain researchers and so many experts from the Ethereum community." – Brian Schroeder, Blockchain Engineer, J.P. Morgan
"Writing secure smart contracts in Solidity, finding ERC20 token exploits, and learning new professional security auditing techniques were all very insightful activities. I wish we had extra time in the day to work on more than one project! The Boot Camp was great!" – Mark Barrasso, Software Engineer, Cisco
PHOTOS from the AWARDS CELEBRATION DINNER
Everett Hildenbrandt (left), UIUC PhD student accepts first place award for the project he led “Analysis Tools on K Semantics of EVM”. Presenting the award, left to right, are Prof. Andrew Miller, IC3 Associate Director, Ming Chan, Ethereum Foundation Executive Director, and Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Chief Scientist. Jonathan Levi, the creator of Hacera, (in the background between Ming and Vitalik) enjoys Andrew’s humor, along with the rest of the crowd.
The crowd erupts in applause as the project “Writing Secure Smart Contracts” is announced as the second place award winner. The project leader, Phil Daian, Cornell PhD student (second from right) makes his way to accept the award on behalf of the team.
Jim Ballingall, IC3 Executive Director and Prof. Andrew Miller, IC3 Associate Director thank the Ethereum Foundation, the Industry Sponsors, and the amazing blockchain engineers, developers, architects and students from around the world who attended the 2017 Boot Camp.
The group gathered after the Celebration Dinner for a photo. Afterwards, several of the participants hung out talking blockchain, shooting pool and enjoying libations until the wee hours. Thanks to all who made this a wonderful event! We look forward to seeing you and many new faces next year!
2017 AWARDS – COURTESY of the ETHEREUM FOUNDATION
- 1st prize: $256 of ETH. "Towards a K Semantics of the EVM" – Team Leader: Everett Hildenbrandt from UIUC.
- 2nd prize: 10,000 DOGE. "Writing Secure Smart Contracts." Team leader: Phil Daian from Cornell
- 3rd prize: Undisclosed quantity of UET (Useless Ethereum Tokens). “ETH-ETC Peace Relay” - Loi Luu (NUS) and Nate Rush (Berkeley).
- Honorable Mention: Undisclosed quantity of UET (Useless Ethereum Tokens). “Frontrunning Bancor” - Haseeb Qureshi and Preethi Kasireddy.
One team member from each of these four teams receives a conference pass and travel grant to present at DevCon3 in Cancun!
OTHER BOOT CAMP PROJECTS
- Distributed Key Generation for HoneyBadger BFT Team Leader: Andrew Miller
- Town Crier Applications Team leader: Ethan Cecchetti
- White-Hat Blockchain Hacks Team leader: Ari Juels
- Offline Payment Channels with SGX Team leaders: Ittay Eyal and Iddo Bentov
- A Bitcoin SPV client using zkSNARK Team Leader: Andrew Miller and Ahmed Kosba
- Trustless Atomic Trades Between Ethereum and Zcash Team leaders: Ariel Gabizon and Jay Graber
- A New Ivy-Based Higher-Level Language for Ethereum Team leaders: Dan Robinson, Boyma Fahnbulleh
