SW Card, Ph.D. Stuart W. Card leads research and development of trustworthy networked autonomy to address the threats and opportunities posed by the complex interdependent networks and autonomous cyber-physical systems that convergein the Internet of Things. Raised in a family of educators and entrepreneurs, his first experience of profit and loss responsibility running a business unit came as a child. His Navy training included experiences operating aircraft, ships and submarines, plus the applied study of leadership. His PhD research applied information theory to evolutionary algorithm based Machine Learning, which he is extending to support causal reasoning for explainable Artificial Intelligence. His 30-plus years of military and commercial experience has included development of protocols,software and hardware for cable modems, wireline telecom testing, wireless communications interference mitigation, “cognitive” Software Defined Radio (SDR), wearable sensors, airborne radar, neural networks, fault tolerant storage, location based publish-subscribe-query data distribution services, financial information security measures for an international private equity firm, zero knowledge proofs, etc., yielding several patents. As a co-founder of Central New York State’s first commercial Internet service provider, he gained hands-on practical experience building, maintaining, operating and supporting customers/users of a 24×365 wide area network. He has led R&D and supported real world deployment of Internet Protocol (IP) Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN) of air, land and sea mobile nodes, including Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, “drones”). Dr. Card is an active developer of international technical standards and a supporter of open source software, especially to facilitate independent formal verification, independent testing and real time remote attestation of system trustworthiness. Stu was a minor participant in the early days of the cypherpunks, the group from which blockchain based cryptocurrencies and smartcontracts emerged, and still believes in the potential of crypto to facilitate free speech and free markets as a rising tide to lift all boats
C.M. Smolen: With over 25 years of commercial product development experience for unattended payment systems in the vending and kiosk industries , Mr Smolen specializes in cutting edge unattended payment system(s) including the first vending machine to accept BTC in 2011. Education: B.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Computer Science and Post-graduate work in theoretical computer science at Syracuse University Mr. Smolen. Thesis: ” New Resource Measurement Yields Upper Bound for a Problem in the Complexity Class P” 1994 Primary engineer and quotidian developer of hardware/firmware/software for unattended payment interfaces . Architect for back-end systems for Fortune 100 companies and design and development of over 30 commercial products including the seminal PC2MDB™. Core Competencies: MDB, DEX, VMC’s, UI/UX, HMIs DeX, DeFi and ALP. Hyperledger Fabric and smart contracts in Go. ERC-20, Solidity, C, Go, Python, Microchip/Atmel MCUs Research interest include ML, GOFAI, DAO and HMI’s.
