Blockchain Technology and Applications Lecture
Network theory has very many application areas, where graphs are of primary importance, in e.g.,:
-Communication networks
-Epidemiology
-Systems Biology
-Social networks.
Social Media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, to name a few) has had a tremendous growth in the past 20 years. Social Media Analysis has very many applications, e.g.,:
-Recommendation Systems
-Sentiment Analysis
-Information Diffusion
-Web Search.
This lecture overviews Blockchain Technology that has many applications in Cryptocurrencies, Identity Management and Biometrics. It covers the following topics in detail: Introduction to Cryptography, Blockchain and Blockchain Consensus Algorithms. Applications in Cryptocurrencies, Distributed Identity Management (uPost, Sovrin, ShoCard systems) and Biometrics.