Publications (12)
Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey
Sarah Allen, Pranay Anchuri, James Austgen +22
The intersection of crypto x AI is spawning papers, products, online posts, and companies. All the surrounding buzz, though, obscures what exactly has been done, what the opportuni…
The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms
Andrés Fábrega, James Austgen, Samuel Breckenridge +5
Collective Investment Algorithms (CoinAlgs) are increasingly popular systems that deploy shared trading strategies for investor communities. Their goal is to democratize sophistica…
DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs
James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Sarah Allen +3
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however-the 'D' in DA…
Learning to Assess Danger from Movies for Cooperative Escape Planning in Hazardous Environments
Vikram Shree, Sarah Allen, Beatriz Asfora +2
There has been a plethora of work towards improving robot perception and navigation, yet their application in hazardous environments, like during a fire or an earthquake, is still…
Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization
Andrés Fábrega, Amy Zhao, Jay Yu +5
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however -- the 'D' in…
Planet Four: Terrains - Discovery of Araneiforms Outside of the South Polar Layered Deposits
Megan E. Schwamb, Klaus-Michael Aye, Ganna Portyankina +7
We present the results of a systematic mapping of seasonally sculpted terrains on the South Polar region of Mars with the Planet Four: Terrains (P4T) online citizen science project…
Forsage: Anatomy of a Smart-Contract Pyramid Scheme
Tyler Kell, Haaroon Yousaf, Sarah Allen +2
Pyramid schemes are investment scams in which top-level participants in a hierarchical network recruit and profit from an expanding base of defrauded newer participants. Pyramid sc…
Gravity Spy: Integrating Advanced LIGO Detector Characterization, Machine Learning, and Citizen Science
Michael Zevin, Scott Coughlin, Sara Bahaadini +15
(abridged for arXiv) With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of as…
The K2-138 System: A Near-Resonant Chain of Five Sub-Neptune Planets Discovered by Citizen Scientists
Jessie L. Christiansen, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Geert Barentsen +25
K2-138 is a moderately bright (V = 12.2, K = 10.3) main sequence K-star observed in Campaign 12 of the NASA K2 mission. It hosts five small (1.6-3.3R_Earth) transiting planets in a…
Future Supply of Medical Radioisotopes for the UK Report 2014
Brian Neilly, Sarah Allen, Jim Ballinger +10
The UK has no research nuclear reactors and relies on the importation of 99Mo and other medical radioisotopes (e.g. Iodine-131) from overseas (excluding PET radioisotopes). The UK…
Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets
James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar +5
Inherent in the world of cryptocurrency systems and their security models is the notion that private keys, and thus assets, are controlled by individuals or individual entities. We…
Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the first two years of TESS
Nora L. Eisner, Oscar Barragán, Chris Lintott +23
We present the results from the first two years of the Planet Hunters TESS citizen science project, which identifies planet candidates in the TESS data by engaging members of the g…