Research for Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts; Hardware for Deep Learning: Expert-curated Guides to the Best of CS Research

Abstract

First, Arvind Narayanan and Andrew Miller, co-authors of the increasingly popular open-access Princeton Bitcoin textbook, provide an overview of ongoing research in cryptocurrencies. Second, Song Han provides an overview of hardware trends related to another long-studied academic problem that has recently seen an explosion in popularity: deep learning.