Virgil Griffith

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Virgil Griffith

Virgil Griffith is affiliated with the following schools: Rice University, University of Alabama, Indiana University, California Institute of Technology

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Virgil Griffith

Computer Science

#3872

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#4069

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#1381

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Machine Learning

#6088

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#6191

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#293

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Database

#6117

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#6342

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#803

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Artificial Intelligence

#6618

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#6741

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#419

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Biology

#15899

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#19977

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#3112

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Neuroscience

#2975

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#3056

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#388

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Virgil Griffith's Degrees

Bachelors Computer Science Rice University
PhD Computational Neuroscience California Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Virgil Griffith , is an American programmer and convicted felon. He worked extensively on the Ethereum cryptocurrency platform, designed the Tor2web proxy along with Aaron Swartz, and created the Wikipedia indexing tool WikiScanner. He has published papers on artificial life and integrated information theory. Griffith was arrested in 2019 and in 2021 pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. laws relating to money laundering using cryptocurrency and sanctions related to North Korea. On April 12, 2022, Griffith was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment for assisting North Korea with evading sanctions and is currently in a federal low-security prison in Pennsylvania.

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Virgil Griffith's Published Works

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Published Works

Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget (2017) (472)
Quantifying synergistic mutual information (2012) (187)
Messin' with Texas Deriving Mother's Maiden Names Using Public Records (2005) (101)
Intersection Information Based on Common Randomness (2013) (70)
Passive and Driven Trends in the Evolution of Complexity (2011) (31)
Quantifying Redundant Information in Predicting a Target Random Variable (2014) (24)
Graph Theoretic Properties of the Darkweb (2017) (15)
Is Consciousness Computable? Quantifying Integrated Information Using Algorithmic Information Theory (2014) (14)
A Principled Infotheoretic \phi-like Measure (2014) (12)
Synergy, Redundancy and Common Information (2015) (12)
A Principled Infotheoretic φ-like Measure (2014) (8)
Quantifying synergistic information (2014) (7)
Ideal Free Distribution in Agents with Evolved Neural Architectures (2011) (6)
Quantifying synergistic information remains an unsolved problem (2011) (2)
Irreducibility is Minimum Synergy Among Parts (2013) (2)
The Darkweb: A Social Network Anomaly (2020) (1)
Tor growth rates and improving Torperf throughput (2014) (1)
Synergy is a Special Case of Irreducibility (2013) (0)

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