[crypto] Fwd: [cis-seminars] Fwd: Invitation: Hot Topics on the LCS35 Puzzle, followed by Timecapsule Opening Ceremony on May 15

[R. Hirschfeld]

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Subject: [cis-seminars] Fwd: Invitation: Hot Topics on the LCS35 Puzzle, 
followed by Timecapsule Opening Ceremony on May 15
Date: 2019-05-09 18:13
 From: Vinod Vaikuntanathan <vinod.nathan at gmail.com>
To: crypto at lists.csail.mit.edu, cis-seminars at csail.mit.edu, 
charles-river-crypto-day at googlegroups.com

Of possible interest...

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 From: rus <rus at csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, May 1, 2019 at 5:48 PM
Subject: Invitation: Hot Topics on the LCS35 Puzzle, followed by
Timecapsule Opening Ceremony on May 15
To: <csail-pi at csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Rachel Gordon <rachelg at csail.mit.edu>, Lauralyn Smith <
rus-office at csail.mit.edu>


Dear CSAIL colleagues and friends,

As you may have read, this past week a 20-year-old cryptographic puzzle
posed by our lab was solved
<https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/programmers-solve-mits-20-year-old-cryptographic-puzzle>
15
years earlier than expected.

The puzzle was originally proposed in a 1999 announcement
<https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/lcs35-puzzle-description.txt> tied 
to
the 35th anniversary of the Lab for Computer Science (LCS), where we
promised that, if a correct solution was uncovered, we would unseal a
special “LCS time capsule” filled with MIT computing artifacts
<http://web.archive.org/web/20001211154000/http:/www.lcs.mit.edu/about/timecapsule>,
including objects related to the invention of the World Wide Web, 
Ethernet,
time-sharing and the spreadsheet.

I’m excited to report that we will open the capsule on Wednesday, May 15 
as
part of a special installment of our “Hot Topics in Computing” series.

The Hot Topics event will take place at 4 p.m. in the Patil Conference 
Room
and include:

    - A brief talk from Professor Ron Rivest about the original puzzle
    - A presentation of the solution developed by Bernard Fabrot
    - Q&A with the team responsible for the solution

Following the Hot Topics Discussion, we will hold a ceremony to unseal 
the
time capsule in the R&D Commons. This will include:

    - The official unsealing of the capsule and a reflection on its many
    artifacts
    - A special ceremony featuring a new challenge puzzle (designed to 
take
    15 years to solve to get to the original target of 35 years) and a
    “re-sealing” of the capsule
    - Cake and drinks!

Since we are opening the time capsule, we have an opportunity to add new
things to it. I invite you to see the time capsule and a list of its
contents in the demo area on the 3rd floor, outside the CSAIL HR 
offices.
  (The list is also here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001211154000/http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/timecapsule
<http://web.archive.org/web/20001211154000/http:/www.lcs.mit.edu/about/timecapsule>
)

I would like to ask you to contribute new artifacts and documents to the
capsule from the last 20 years. Please email Lauralyn Smith (
lauralyn at csail.mit.edu) with your suggestions for new items by May 10.

I hope you are excited for this event as we are, and I look forward to
celebrating with you all in a few weeks!

Daniela

Prof. Daniela Rus
Director, CSAIL
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor, EECS
MIT

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