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SBFT: a Scalable and Decentralized Trust Infrastructure

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Planetary-Scale Byzantine Fault Tolerance

On the Theory and Practice of Modern Secure Messaging

Leaderless consensus

The evolution of behavioral cues and signaling in displaced communication

Uncertainty-aware Flexibility Envelope Prediction in Buildings with Controller-agnostic Battery Models

Genomics and conservation: Guidance from training to analyses and applications

A digital bridge between brain and spinal cord restores walking after paralysis

Byzantine consensus is Θ(n^2): the Dolev-Reischuk bound is tight even in partial synchrony!

Estimating the Topology of Preferential Attachment Graphs Under Partial Observability

Continuous Simulation Data Stream: A dynamical timescale-dependent output scheme for simulations

Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation

Unambiguous DNFs and Alon-Saks-Seymour

Effect of Different Communication Affordances on the Emergence of Collaboration Strategies in an Online Multiplayer Game

A Robotic Teacher Community to Foster the Integration of Educational Robotics in School

A Modular Multimodal Architecture for Gaze Target Prediction: Application to Privacy-Sensitive Settings

Science Communication Desperately Needs More Aligned Recommendation Algorithms

Proofs, Circuits, and Communication

Radial Scope: A New Visualization Tool for Structure-Data Relationships

Exploring Photoredox-Catalyzed (Re)functionalizations with Core-Modified Benziodoxolones

Accurate Nod and 3D Gaze Estimation for Social Interaction Analysis