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SUMMARY: Unanimous: In Pursuit of Edge Network Consensus - Heidi Howard (U
 niversity of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Heidi Howard
DESCRIPTION:Many projects in the SRG at the moment (HAT\, UCN\, contacts a
 pp\, MirageOS for ARM\, Jitsu\, databox\, signposts) are trying to give in
 dividuals an viable alternative to 3rd party centralised services and put 
 them back in control of their personal data. However developing applicatio
 ns for the hostile edge network\, with its heterogeneous hosts and network
 s\, trust issues and poorly understood middle boxes is tricky. This is mad
 e worse by the fact that consensus algorithms are famously difficult to us
 e\, underspecified and based on decade old assumption about the internet. 
 In this talklet\, I will motivate Unanimous\, a new consensus algorithm fo
 r the modern internet.\n\nNB: This is a practice talk for EuroSys doctoral
  workshop next Tuesday\, thus this 5 min talk will simply motivate a resea
 rch direction instead of presenting complete solution.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room FW11
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