Zakir Durumeric from University of Michigan came to give a talk at the MIT security seminar. His research focuses on measurement-driven security. Specifically, he is interested in developing tools for researchers to better measure the Internet, and using this…

Yonatan Sompolinsky from The Hebrew University, Jerusalem came to MIT to give a talk about the Bitcoin blockchain. This talk covered a lot of his most recent work, so I refer you to his publications for more details outside of this blog post.

Andre Dehon from Draper Labs and University of Pennsylvania came to give a talk at the security seminar on his work for software-defined metadata processing.

Computers are vulnerable, but the world is changing because silicon is cheap and…