Join us at the Connection Lab on Wednesday, February 21st as we host legendary internet and computing pioneer Alan Kay over zoom for a discussion on technology, society, and future research possibilities.

Join us at the Connection Lab on Friday, November 18th for a screening of The Bit Player, a documentary on the life and work of computer scientist pioneer Claude Shannon, also known as the father of information theory.

The event will be hosted by Professor Kleinrock, who was advised by Shannon in his committee while a PhD student at MIT. Professor Kleinrock went on to create the foundations of the internet with his work in queueing theory, and is also known as the father of the internet.

The Bit Player is produced and directed by Mark Levinson in cooperation with the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Ben Tsai, the president & managing partner at Wave Financial, joins UCLA Blockchain as a guest speaker. Wave Financial is a Santa Monica based crypto investment firm with an AUM of over $1 billion. Ben has previously spent several years in the traditional finance space as an MD for BofA in Asia, where he ran equity derivatives and commodities. he's also an alumni of UCLA Anderson, and is currently a lecturer in the MBA school.

We're excited to have Elizabeth Stark from Lightning Labs join us for a Q&A about Lightning! Elizabeth is a huge fan of open source, decentralized protocols. She taught at Stanford and Yale where her students studied peer-to-peer technology, privacy, open source software, and memes. She has been an active contributor to the bitcoin community, an advisor to startups in areas ranging from cryptocurrency to decentralized technology to AI, and is a fellow at Coin Center. She has a law degree from Harvard and is an avid listener of electronic music.