Emin Gun Sirer

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Emin Gün Sirer is a Turkish-American computer scientist . He is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Co-Director of the Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Initiative (IC3) . He is known for his work in peer-to-peer systems, operating systems and computer networks .

education

Sirer went to school at Robert College in Istanbul and studied at Princeton University .

He received his PhD from the University of Washington until 2002 under the supervision of Brian N. Bershad. His dissertation dealt with secure and efficient virtual machines ("Secure, efficient and manageable virtual machine systems").

Career

Prior to becoming a professor at Cornell University , Sirer worked at AT&T Bell Labs on Plan 9, DEC Systems Research Center, and NEC .

Sirer is best known for its work on operating systems and distributed systems. He developed the SPIN operating system, which allows the implementation and interfaces of an operating system to be changed while it is running. He also led the Nexus OS project and developed HyperDex , a key-value database .

In 2003 he published an academic paper on karma, one of the first cryptocurrencies . Sirer has been researching blockchain since around 2013 . He is co-founder of the initiative for cryptocurrencies and smart contracts (IC3) . He has also been active in Ava Labs , a blockchain startup, since 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nidhi Subbaraman: Meet The Immigrant Scientists Spooked By A Looming Trump Presidency ( en ) Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ Emin Gün Sirer: Secure, efficient and manageable virtual machine systems ( en ) 2002. Retrieved on August 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Brian N. Bershad, Craig Chambers, Susan Eggers, Chris Maeda, Dylan McNamee, Przemyslaw Pardyak, Stefan Savage, Emin Gün Sirer, et al .: SPIN - An Extensible Microkernel for Application-specific Operating System Services ( en ) 1994. Retrieved on September 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System ( en ). Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  5. ^ Alan Shieh, Dan Williams, Emin Gün, Sirer Fred, B. Schneider: Nexus: A new operating system for trustworthy computing ( en ) ACM Press. Pp. 1-9. 2005.
  6. ↑ HyperDex: a distributed, searchable key-value store ( en ) October 2019. Accessed August 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ Laura Shin: What Does Cornell's Emin Gun Sirer See As The Main Security Threats In Cryptocurrency? 'Everything' ( s ) Retrieved on 30 September 2017th
  8. ↑ To Interview with Emin Gün Sirer, Hacker and Professor at Cornell ( en ) February 22, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  9. ↑ Vitalik Buterin : Selfish Mining: A 25% Attack Against the Bitcoin Network ( en ) November 4, 2013. Accessed August 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ Initivative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts: People ( en ) Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ Cornell University's Emin Gun Sirer Debuts Ava block Chain Following $ 6 million investment ( s ) 17 May 2019. Accessed on 9 August of 2019.

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SURNAME Sirer, Emin Gün
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century