Lecture 1 - The SAFE Network from First Principles

Lecture 1: XOR Distance and Basic Routing

Erick Lavoie (http://ericklavoie.com/) will give the first lecture of The SAFE Network from First Principles, a new online class that will help SAFE Enthusiasts understand how the routing layer (https://github.com/maidsafe/maidsafe-routing) of the SAFE Network works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEJBOK6Dd_U

Schedule

5:00 PM Arrive early to meet other SAFE Enthusiasts

5:30 PM Snacks and drinks will be provided. Feel free to order food or to go get something from a nearby takeaway restaurant

6:30 PM We should have finished eating by that time and we will start getting ready for Erick's lecture

6:45 PM Final preparations before the live streaming

7:00 PM Erick's lecture

7:45 PM Questions period

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Stay around to talk with other SAFE Enthusiasts

Speaker

Erick Lavoie (http://ericklavoie.com) is a Ph.D student in computer science at McGill University. He is currently interested in leveraging end-user computational resources, in the form of storage, bandwidth, and computational power to solve important scientific and engineering problems. Concretely, he is building a peer-to-peer infrastructure using web technologies for running distributed MATLAB code.

http://ericklavoie.com/img/profile.jpg

Live streaming

This event will be broadcasted live with Hangouts On Air (here (https://plus.google.com/events/cuv1unemjn3r517qc8c5p2n040k)). Viewers will be able to ask and vote on questions for Erick to answer.

Sponsors

MaidSafe.net (http://maidsafe.net/)

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Infinity Algorithms (http://www.infinityalgorithms.com/) & BitTea.io (http://www.bittea.io/)

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François Brunelle (father of Francis Brunelle (http://www.frabrunelle.com/))

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Partners

Bitcoin Embassy (http://bitcoinembassy.ca/)

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Olivier Jobin (http://www.olivierjobin.com/) (videographer)

Olivier Martel Savoie (photographer)