Professor Liu Chang Give Academic Forum in Our School

In the evening of June 13, the seminar on Smart Contracts was held in the lecture hall of J5-1 in our school. Professor Liu Chang from Ohio University of the United States gives the lecture. Many students from the school of information and communication engineering attended the forum.

Firstly,Mrs Wu Qianqian introduced the academic background and theoretical research results of Professor Liu Chang to the teachers and students, and expressed the gratitude and welcome to his arrival. Professor Liu Chang talked about the formation process of contracts and consensus through a simple example of commercial trade from the early Western parliamentary system, and then explained how decentralized application is formed.

In view of the current development status of smart contracts, Professor Liu Chang pointed out that smart contracts realize software-defined, decentralized economic and social systems through data democracy. At present, smart contracts are mainly used in the banking and financial industries, but there are still some bottlenecks in their development. Whats more, Professor Liu pointed out that with the continuous strengthening of smart contracts in the future, developers will have more space for innovation.

In the discussion session, Professor Liu answered the questions raised by the students on how to determine the future research field in the postgraduate stage, and made suggestions on how to improve the international vision of college students in the future.