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Relive the dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1453, the siege that ended the Byzantine Empire and reshaped world history. This video explores the Ottoman assault led by Sultan Mehmed II, the massive ...

Abstract: The Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) protocol-supported blockchain can provide decentralized security and trust mechanisms for the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the PBFT ...

Abstract: We study stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with local iterations in the presence of Byzantine clients, motivated by federated learning. The clients, instead of communicating with the server ...

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What Is Byzantine Generals’ Problem? Distributed systems are the bedrock of modern technology. The internet, blockchain, cloud computing, and countless everyday applications all rely on multiple ...

There is no other place on Earth where Christian mosaics of saints and Byzantine rulers are juxtaposed with ... Orthodox Christianity and the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when ...