![]() ![]() If something happens on Michael’s computer, you think that happened first, but Jenny would think that happened second. That was the first one that was called “Byzantine resistance.” But the basic idea is that the minute you leave the comfort of your laptop or your cell phone or your computer and you go into the web-a distributed system-then your perception of events and reality is different than other people’s perception of events and reality.įor example, let’s say you’re closer to Michael’s computer than Jenny’s. He also wrote Paxos, which is a distributed systems protocol. ![]() He wrote some of the foundational papers-for example, Lamport clocks, about how to keep time in a distributed system. Hoskinson: Distributed systems is one of the oldest areas of computer science-conceptually a very simple problem but, in practice, a very difficult one. Talk a little bit about how that work, with roots in computer science, informs the research you’re doing as it pertains to blockchains? That’s the hardest part.įorbes: Many people coming to crypto and blockchain may not realize that the ideas of decentralized consensus and networks didn’t originate with blockchains. It’s almost like an architect to a general contractor the architect draws these blueprints up, shows you how to make the house, but they obviously don’t build it-the general contractor does that. How do we take those capabilities and actually put them into a system? Now, we go to engineers, a very special type of engineer called “the formal methods engineer”-they read a scientific paper and actually create the blueprint. And then the third part of our research portfolio is protocol-specific. ![]()
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