Course description

Course description#

Instructor#

Dimitri Saingre

Currently a research engineer at IMT Atlantique, conducting research projects on evaluating the energy consumption of AI models. Before, I was a research engineer at Davidson Consulting, working on Cloud applications energy efficiency. Even before, I was a PhD student at IMT Atlantique, working on better understanding the energy consumption of blockchains.

email: firstname dot lastname at imt-atlantique dot fr

Website: https://dimitri-saingre.fr

Course description#

Blockchains are the distributed databases behind the now well-known cryptocurrencies. This concept appeared first with Bitcoin. Since, a wide and complex ecosystem of actors, technologies and use-cases has emerged.

This mini-course aim to teach you the basic concepts behind blockchain and smart-contracts. Through practical sessions and programming, you should be able to better understand the technical realities behind blockchain-related projects.

Educational expectations#

After the end of this mini-course, you should be able to:

  • Understand the key concepts behind blockchains

  • Understand how transactions are processed on a blockchain network

  • Understand what are smart-contracts and how they relate to blockchains

  • Develop your own basic smart-contracts

We will apply this new knowledge in the context of virtual power plants.

Prerequisite#

This course expect basic skills in programming, especially with Python.

Course slides#

Slides can be found here

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