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Leemon Baird is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph, a public distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. Baird is known for his invention of the hashgraph consensus algorithm, which offers an alternative to blockchain technology based on a Directed acyclic graph.
Early Life and Education
Leemon Baird received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy. He earned his Master's degree and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where his doctoral research focused on machine learning and cybersecurity.[1]
Career
Prior to entering the tech industry, Baird served as a professor of computer science at the United States Air Force Academy. He has co-founded several tech startups, including Hedera Hashgraph in 2015, with Mance Harmon. Currently, Baird is Co-CEO at Swirlds Labs, a company that builds open-source components for the Hedera ecosystem.[2]
Contributions to Technology
Baird has published numerous papers and articles in the field of computer science, specifically focusing on distributed systems, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and algorithm design.[3] HIs main creation, the hashgraph consensus algorithm, is recognized for enabling high-throughput, low-latency consensus without extensive computational and energy demands.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ "Leemon Baird, Ortsbo Inc: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Accelerate the future on Hedera". Swirlds Labs. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "L. Baird | Semantic Scholar". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ Platt, Moritz; Sedlmeir, Johannes; Platt, Daniel; Xu, Jiahua; Tasca, Paolo; Vadgama, Nikhil; Ibanez, Juan Ignacio (2021-12). "The Energy Footprint of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms Beyond Proof-of-Work". IEEE: 1135–1144. doi:10.1109/QRS-C55045.2021.00168. ISBN 978-1-6654-7836-6.
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(help) - ^ Schueffel, Patrick (2017). "Alternative Distributed Ledger Technologies Blockchain vs. Tangle vs. Hashgraph - A High-Level Overview and Comparison -". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3144241. ISSN 1556-5068.
- ^ Akhtar, Zuhaib (2019-11). "From Blockchain to Hashgraph: Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Wild". IEEE: 1–6. doi:10.1109/UPCON47278.2019.8980029. ISBN 978-1-7281-3455-0.
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