On the Exploitation of the Honest Masses: Trustworthiness as a Scalable Service

Abstract:

Protection against byzantine (i.e. faulty) behaviors in distributed systems comes at great cost. This is especially true for systems that scale, as the number of failures increases with the size of the system. The argument of this talk is that, luckily, byzantine nodes constitute a tiny minority in most networks: cooperative monitoring among the multitude of honest nodes enables the detection, recovery, and even the prevention of faulty behaviors. After discussing the inherently probabilistic nature of fault tolerance, this talk briefly presents a possible approach based on replication systems for building trust among nodes, and then showcases two concrete applications of this approach.

NYU Shanghai STEM seminar series is a weekly seminar series on every Wednesday, starting from 12th October 2016. 
Please see below tentative schedule of STEM seminar series in 2017 Spring Semester.

• Feb. 8: NO SEMINAR
• Feb. 15: Li Li, Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology
• Feb. 22: Xiao-Jing Wang, Global Professor of Neural Science  
• Mar. 1: Hanghui Chen, Assistant Professor of Physics
• Mar. 8: Vladas Sidoravicius, Professor of Mathematics
• Mar. 15: Keith Ross, Professor of Engineering and Computer Science
• Mar. 22: Olivier Marin, Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Mar. 29: Xinying Cai, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
• Apr. 5: Spring Recess, NO SEMINAR
• Apr. 12: Jungseog Kong, Assistant Professor of Biology
• Apr. 19: Gang Fang, Assistant Professor of Biology
• Apr. 26: Pierre Michael Tarres, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
• May 3: Jeff Erlich, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
• May 10: Laurent Mertz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• May 17: NO SEMINAR