Abstract: Average consensus is a cornerstone of distributed systems, facilitating essential functionalities such as distributed information fusion, decision-making, and decentralized control. However, ...

With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive ...

Abstract: Sharding technology is crucial to achieve decentralization, scalability, and security simultaneously. However, existing sharding blockchain schemes suffer from high cross-shard transaction ...

Conceptual artists are using performance to create unsettling and thought-provoking experiences, often involving the viewer ...

Then there's George Papastamatiou, 77, of Sudbury, a third-generation (and world-renowned) iconographer who's working on a ...

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC holds in its collection several 15th Century Italian Renaissance ...

Chris Erik Thomas interviews Nina Kintsurashvili in the context of her current exhibition at Berlin gallery Bukia Vakhania ...

Participate in a one-hour guided tour of the historic National Academy of Sciences building, highlighting its distinctive ...

Politicians have been sneaking into religious art for centuries. The Byzantine emperor Justinian had himself depicted in a ...

Ben sets his sights on new frontiers of the navel — and sometimes beyond. The mosaics of the early Christian churches at Ravenna are some of the few surviving Byzantine mosaics of their era. Ravenna’s ...