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Muriel Médard: Web3 Has a Memory Problem — And We Finally Have a Fix

A world computer needs a memory that’s not just decentralized but also efficient, scalable, and reliable. We can build it using Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), says Muriel Médard, co-founder of Optimum, which offers memory infrastructure for any blockchain. Médard is the co-inventor of RLNC, which she has developed over two decades of MIT research.

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Electronics engineer Edward Newman inspects the mercury delay lines, which form the memory of Pilot Model ACE, the prototype of the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) at the National Physical Laboratory, London, 1950. The machine was designed by Alan Turing in 1947.