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The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with inventing blockchain – the tech behind the recent cryptocurrency and decentralization boom. But long before Nakamoto published his seminal paper ...

With 20 years of experience running one of the world’s largest distributed computer systems for online retail giant Amazon.com Inc., Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels knows a little bit about ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a proof-of-concept study at Virginia Tech to develop highly connected computer systems that operate in a wireless environment. Small handheld ...

Students gain advanced knowledge of algorithms; computational biology; computer architecture; computer graphics and visualization; computer systems design; database systems; computer security; ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a proof-of-concept study at Virginia Tech to develop highly connected computer systems that operate in a wireless environment. Small handheld ...

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