Computing Seminar Series:
Come and attend the talk by Dr. Mike Doyle titled "The Visible Embryo Project: Following the connections from chick embryos to Bitcoin."
Where: DCIH 445
When: December 2nd, 2022 2:30-5:00 PM
Refreshments: Light refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Doyle will be discussing how a project created to help researchers in developmental biology led to several spin-off technologies that changed the world, including the cloud, spatial biology, Web security, and the first distributed blockchain system.
Dr. Michael Doyle is the creator of fundamental technologies that underlie such revolutionary products as the Cloud, blockchain/cryptocurrency systems, spatial transcriptomics, and mobile intelligent assistants. He received his PhD from the Department of Cell & Structural Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He worked with Dr. Paul Lauterbur (2003 Nobel Laureate) on the application of micro-MRI techniques to embryo imaging, creating the Visible Embryo Project (VEP), a multi-institutional collaboration to create a national online "metacenter" computational and information resource on early human development. Dr. Doyle led a research team that developed fundamental web technologies enabling Web browsers to act as platforms for fully-interactive embedded applications such as streaming media and cloud computing.
Dr. Doyle founded Eolas, where he is the architect of the company's research and development efforts, generating over $250 million dollars in research revenue since 2008. His 1995 invention of code signing has become the de facto standard for securing executable Web content. His work in high-performance biological computing pioneered the important new field of spatial transcriptomics. His creation of transient-key cryptography in the late 1990s represented the first forward-signature distributed-blockchain system, enabling the later creation of the Bitcoin system, and has been adopted in the x9.95 ANSI National Standard for secure timestamps. And, his co-invention of the Skybot mobile intelligent chatbot system in 2005 pioneered the mobile intelligent- assistant product category that is now ubiquitous worldwide.
