The IOTA research department recently gathered for one week of focused discussion and planning around some of the most critical aspects of the organizational roadmap, including Coordicide and attack analysis. This blog post summarizes the events, and offers some insights into the solutions and progress made during the conference.In total, eighteen members of the research team met in Barcelona, Spain during the second week of February. This was not the first time the research team has spent time together in person, but it…

Professor Robert Shorten is joining IOTA as a member of the Research Council. In this role, Robert will focus on advising and helping the research department make strategic decisions.Robert studied Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD). In 1990 he moved to Berlin, Germany, where he first worked at AEG Westinghouse on high-speed railway systems, and then later at Daimler Benz Research in Berlin. In 1996, he completed the requirements for his Ph.D. After a short period as a visiting Post Doc in the US,…

Dr. Moody Alam is joining IOTA as Director of Research. In this role, Moody will focus on overseeing research at the IOTA Foundation.Dr. Moody Alam is a Chartered Scientist (CSci) with the UK Science Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and British Computer Society (BCS). He has been a Visiting Professor in Pakistan and was formerly a Principal Researcher at the University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Distributed Artificial Intelligence and specializes in designing decentralized protocols for…

IOTA Foundation will collaborate with the Odyssey Hackathon Odyssey connects corporate, governmental, and non-profit launching partners to pre-startups, startups, and SMEs The event plans to produce prototype solutions to real-life challengesThe Odyssey Hackathon works by connecting corporate, governmental, and non-profit launching partners to pre-startups, startups, and SMEs in order to breakthrough technology. During the event, 100 teams will be building solutions prototypes to support the international…

The IOTA Foundation has joined the Odyssey Hackathon, in Groningen NL from April 12–14, as an Ecosystem partner.The Odyssey Hackathon connects selected top teams (new teams, pre-startups, startups, and SMEs) to their potential launching customers from corporate, governmental, and non-profit sectors (among which: the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the Dutch Land Registry and the Chamber of Commerce, Vattenfall, KLM, Nutreco, and many others). 100 selected teams will be building solutions prototypes…