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SUMMARY:women@CL Talklets (Session 3) - SRG - Computer Laboratory\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20150514T120000Z
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CONTACT:Ekaterina Kochmar
DESCRIPTION:This talklets session will feature three speakers from the SRG
  group: Helen Oliver\, Desi Hristova and Heidi Howard\n\nTitle: The HAT Pr
 oject and the Automagic Box of Beauty\n\nSpeaker: Helen Oliver\n\nAbstract
 : The ‘Automagic Box of Beauty’ is a use case of the HAT Project. HAT 
 stands for Hub-of-all-Things\, and provides a personal data store built on
  the principle of privacy by design and returning ownership of personal da
 ta to the individual. The Beautybox is an example that shows the HAT’s p
 otential for realizing the Internet of Things within an ecosystem which al
 lows the user to contextualize data from a variety of sensors and sources.
 \n\n\nTitle: Multilayer Brokerage in Geo-Social Networks\n\nSpeaker: Desi 
 Hristova\n\nAbstract: Open network structures and brokerage positions have
  long  been  seen  as  playing  a  crucial  role  in  sustaining  social  
 capital  and  competitive  advantage.  However\, the  degree to which indi
 viduals intermediate between otherwise  disconnected others  can  differ  
 across online  and offline  social  networks. I will describe a geo-social
  multilayer approach to brokerage that casts light on the integrated onlin
 e and offline foundations of social capital by empirically drawing on a da
 ta set of 37K Foursquare users in London\, extending the notion of brokera
 ge by examining users’ positions in an online social network and their o
 ffline mobility patterns through check-ins.\n\n\nTitle: Unanimous: Resilie
 nt consensus for the Internet edge\n\nSpeaker: Heidi Howard \n\nAbstract: 
 Many projects in the lab at the moment are trying to give individuals an v
 iable alternative to 3rd party centralised services and put them back in c
 ontrol of their personal data. However developing applications for the hos
 tile edge network\, with its heterogeneous hosts and networks\, trust issu
 es and poorly understood middleware is tricky. This is made worse by the f
 act that consensus algorithms are famously difficult to use\, underspecifi
 ed and based on decade old assumption about the internet. In this talk\, I
  will motivate the need for a new consensus algorithm for the modern Inter
 net and outline our approach to building such an algorithm.\n
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room FW26
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