Publications (10)
Intersections of Web3 and AI -- View in 2024
David Hyland-Wood, Sandra Johnson
This paper summarises the intersection of Web3 and AI technologies, synergies between these technologies, and gaps that we suggest exist in the conception of the possible integrati…
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report
B. Scott Gaudi, Sara Seager, Bertrand Mennesson +183
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, or HabEx, has been designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficient…
A Primer on Large Language Models and their Limitations
Sandra Johnson, David Hyland-Wood
This paper provides a primer on Large Language Models (LLMs) and identifies their strengths, limitations, applications and research directions. It is intended to be useful to those…
Invoice Financing of Supply Chains with Blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence
Sandra Johnson, Peter Robinson, Kishore Atreya +1
Supply chains lend themselves to blockchain technology, but certain challenges remain, especially around invoice financing. For example, the further a supplier is removed from the…
Atomic Crosschain Transactions White Paper
Peter Robinson, Raghavendra Ramesh, John Brainard +1
Atomic Crosschain Transaction technology allows composable programming across private Ethereum blockchains. It allows for inter-contract and inter-blockchain function calls that ar…
Stateful to Stateless: Modelling Stateless Ethereum
Sandra Johnson, David Hyland-Wood, Anders L Madsen +1
The concept of 'Stateless Ethereum' was conceived with the primary aim of mitigating Ethereum's unbounded state growth. The key facilitator of Stateless Ethereum is through the int…
Proposer selection in EIP-7251
Sandra Johnson, Kerrie Mengersen, Patrick O'Callaghan +1
Immediate settlement, or single-slot finality (SSF), is a long-term goal for Ethereum. The growing active validator set size is placing an increasing computational burden on the ne…
Atomic Crosschain Transactions for Ethereum Private Sidechains
Peter Robinson, David Hyland-Wood, Roberto Saltini +2
Public blockchains such as Ethereum and Bitcoin do not give enterprises the privacy they need for many of their business processes. Consequently consortiums are exploring private b…
From Science to Management: Using Bayesian Networks to Learn about Lyngbya
Sandra Johnson, Eva Abal, Kathleen Ahern +1
Toxic blooms of Lyngbya majuscula occur in coastal areas worldwide and have major ecological, health and economic consequences. The exact causes and combinations of factors which l…
Sidechains and interoperability
Sandra Johnson, Peter Robinson, John Brainard
There appears to be an insatiable desire for spawning new bespoke blockchains to harness the functionality provided by blockchain technologies, resulting in a constant stream of bl…