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<p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Hi!</span></p>
<p>I'm working on <a href="http://www.oceanprotocol.com/">Ocean Protocol</a>, which is unbounding AI via blockchain technology. These days, my focus is <a href="https://www.predictoor.ai/">Ocean Predictoor</a>. Predictions are the most valuable data; Predictoor enables decentralized prediction feeds via AI * Web3. At scale, Predictoor <a href="https://twitter.com/trentmc0/status/1732321049847456123">will unlock</a> vastly more powerful AI, backed by ground-truth physics.</p>
<p>I've been programming since I was a kid. I've built tech that has impacted many: AI to drive Moore's Law, early NFTs, and more. I helped kick off the field of Token Engineering. I continue to learn, build, and write aiming for high impact. My long-term goal is to help ensure that humanity has a role in an increasingly autonomous world. <a href="https://twitter.com/trentmc0/status/1749095289909072063">bci/acc</a> is the path. Yes, I'm a solarpunk :) <span style="color: #8e8e8e; font-family: &amp;amp; font-size: 14px;">🌞👨🎤 </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Bio</span></p>
<p>I started my career by doing AI research for national defense in 1997 & 1998, while still an undergraduate. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Leung">Henry Leung</a> was my supervisor. Here's the papers: [<a href="https://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gp-html/McConaghy_1998_GPlsfpmpts.html">1</a>][<a href="./content/2003-Classification_of_audio_radar_signals.pdf">2</a>].</p>
<p>Then, in my first startup (<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/analog-design-automation">ADA</a>), we explored the relation between human creativity and AI-based machine creativity. We started work on ADA in 1998; Synopsys <a href="https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1217490">acquired</a> ADA in 2004.</p>
<p>I extended that work in my PhD at <a href="https://micas.esat.kuleuven.be/">ESAT-MICAS</a>, KU Leuven, Belgium from 2004-2008. <a href="https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=FGCYpVMAAAAJ&hl=en">Georges Gielen</a> was my supervisor. I found a way to reconcile machine creativity with existing engineering knowledge. Here's the book: <a href="content/mcconaghy-phd.pdf">[PDF]</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9048129052">[Springer version]</a>.</p>
<p>In my second startup (<a href="http://www.solidodesign.com/">Solido</a>), we leveraged AI to help drive Moore's Law, which was under threat due to high manufacturing variations. Here's the book: <a href="content/2012-variation-book.pdf">[PDF]</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Variation-Aware-Design-Custom-Integrated-Circuits-ebook/dp/B00A9YH8P2">[Springer version]</a>. Now, Solido software is used for most modern chip designs. We started work on Solido in 2004; by 2010 we were profitable; Siemens <a href="https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332639">acquired</a> Solido in 2017.</p>
<p>My third and current startup has been about blockchain applied to art, data, and AI. We hatched the <a href="https://medium.com/@trentmc0/ascribe-for-nft-archaeologists-17ca5481d206">ascribe NFT platform</a> in 2013, <a href="http://www.bigchaindb.com/">BigchainDB</a> blockchain database in 2015, and <a href="http://www.oceanprotocol.com/">Ocean Protocol</a> in 2017.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://predictoor.ai/">Writing</a></span></p>
<p>Until the mid 2010s, I did a lot of technical academic writing (books, papers). Since then, it's been more blog posts. Here are some highlights.</p>
<p><strong>NFTs</strong></p>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://medium.com/@trentmc0/ascribe-for-nft-archaeologists-17ca5481d206?source=user_profile---------22----------------------------">ascribe for NFT archaelogists</a>. About our 2013 work for NFTs on Bitcoin. 2021</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://medium.com/oceanprotocol/nfts-ip-1-practical-connections-of-erc721-with-intellectual-property-dc216aaf005d?source=user_profile---------30----------------------------">NFTs & IP 1</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/oceanprotocol/nfts-ip-2-leveraging-erc20-fungibility-bcee162290e3?source=user_profile---------29----------------------------">2</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/oceanprotocol/nfts-ip-2-leveraging-erc20-fungibility-bcee162290e3?source=user_profile---------29----------------------------">3</a>. How intellectual property (IP) relates to blockchain. 2021</div>
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<p><strong>AI & Web3 Near-Term</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://blog.bigchaindb.com/ai-daos-and-three-paths-to-get-there-cfa0a4cc37b8">AI DAOs I</a>, <a href="https://blog.bigchaindb.com/wild-wooly-ai-daos-d1719e040956">II</a>. AIs owning themselves! My first writing on AI & blockchain. 2016</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/blockchains-for-artificial-intelligence-ec63b0284984">Blockchains for AI</a>. 2016</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/from-ai-to-blockchain-to-data-meet-ocean-f210ff460465">From AI to Blockchain to Data: Meet Ocean</a>. 2017. Followed by <a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/mission-values-for-ocean-protocol-aba998e95b8">Mission & Values for Ocean Protocol</a></li>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/data-tokens-1-data-custody-1d0d5ae66d0c">Datatokens 1</a>, <a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/data-tokens-2-fungible-composable-54b6e0d28293">2</a>, <a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/data-tokens-3-data-and-decentralized-finance-data-defi-d5c9a6e578b7">3</a>. 2019. <a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-datatokens-from-money-legos-to-data-legos-4f867cec1837">Datatokens: From Money Legos to Data Legos</a>. 2020</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://medium.com/oceanprotocol/the-data-value-creation-loop-68e23575be02">The Data Value-Creation Loop</a>. On data flywheels & supply chains. 2023/2024.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/meet-predictoor-accountable-accurate-prediction-feeds-8b104d26a5d9">Meet Predictoor: Accountable Accurate Prediction Feeds</a>. 2023</div>
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<p><strong>Big Picture, incl. AI & Web3 Long-Term</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://medium.com/@trentmc0/starships-and-tokens-d8c32728a24b">Starships and Tokens (The Map): A Path to Human Self-Actualization</a>. "The Map" is a civilization-level tech tree. It's my north star. Helped spark Foresight Institute <a href="https://foresight.org/tech-tree/">Tech Trees</a> project. 2017. </li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@trentmc0/nature-2-0-27bdf8238071">Nature 2.0: The Cradle of Civilization Gets an Upgrade</a>. Subset of The Map: a hopeful vision of the future that combines AI * Web3 into a symbiosis of biology and machine, for a future of abundance. Helped spark <a href="https://sovereignnature.com/">Sovereign Nature Initiative</a>. 2018</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@trentmc0/the-ai-existential-threat-and-the-bandwidth-scenario-4573c1cb085f">The AI Existential Threat: Reflections of a Recovering Bio-Narcissist </a>(problem). <a href="https://medium.com/@trentmc0/the-bandwidth-scenario-d3bfd8f29e2d">The Bandwidth++ Scenario</a> (solution). Subset of The Map: an eyes-wide-open solution to AI Existential Risk, via BCI. 2016</li>
<li><span><a href="https://t.co/EDRD2Ad2xg">bci/acc: A Pragmatic Path to Compete with Artificial Superintelligence: An e/acc zoom-in on brain interfaces, towards human superintelligence</a>", Jan 21, 2024 [<a href="https://twitter.com/trentmc0/status/1749095289909072063">Tweet</a>]</span></li>
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<p><strong>Token Engineering</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/can-blockchains-go-rogue-5134300ce790?source=---------14-----------------------">Token Engineering I</a>, <a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/towards-a-practice-of-token-engineering-b02feeeff7ca?source=---------13-----------------------">II</a>, <a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/token-engineering-case-studies-b44267e68f4?source=---------12-----------------------">III</a>. Helped spark <a href="https://tokenengineering.net/">TE</a>:) 2018</li>
<li>
<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-web3-sustainability-loop-b2a4097a36e">The Web3 Sustainability Loop</a>. A pragmatic system-level token design. Similarity to businesses & nations. 2020</div>
</li>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/should-product-market-fit-come-before-tokens-6c542a75c8dc">Should Product-Market Fit Come Before Tokens?</a> On the Degree of Token Usage in a Product. 2020</div>
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</li>
<li>
<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/on-verifying-token-based-systems-c33eca757ecf">On Verifying Token-Based Systems: A TE perspective</a>. 2020</div>
</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/tokenspice/introducing-tokenspice-fb4dac98bcf9">TokenSPICE 1</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/tokenspice/tokenspice-design-verification-flows-5b795c594f9c">2</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/tokenspice/how-to-model-with-tokenspice-evm-agent-simulation-2b2ef8cfe9c9">3</a>. EVM agent-based simulation. 2021. <a href="https://github.com/tokenspice/tokenspice">Github</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-data-farming-main-is-here-49c99602419">Ocean Data Farming Main is Here</a> Liquidity mining style incentives, tuned for data. 2023</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Consensus</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://blog.bigchaindb.com/the-dcs-triangle-5ce0e9e0f1dc">The DCS Triangle: Decentralized, Consistent, Scalable. Pick any two</a> [<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xew3E-tejCSB8SOVsuw4du-ioMGYCiLn/view?usp=drive_link">alt</a>]. This discovery later became known as the Scalability Trilemma. 2016</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Past Projects</span></p>
<li>PhD in <a href="https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/micas/">EE</a> from <a href="https://www.kuleuven.be/english/">KU Leuven</a>, Belgium. <a href="https://www.edaa.com/dissertation_award.html">Awarded</a> #1 thesis worldwide in the field. 2004-2008</li>
<li>BE EE and BsC CS from <a href="https://www.usask.ca/">U Saskatchewan</a>, Canada. Awarded #1 final year thesis. 1994-1999</li>
<li>Did ML research for Canadian Department of National Defense. 1997, 1998</li>
<li>Wrote 2 Books [<a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/book/978-1-4614-2268-6">1</a>,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Variation-Aware-Analog-Structural-Synthesis-Computational/dp/9048129052/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282234715&sr=8-1">2</a>] on AI/ML, circuits and creativity. Also 35 Papers and 20 Patents on AI/ML [<a href="./publications/index.html">details</a>]. 2004-2012</li>
<li>Member of Advisory Group for the <a href="https://e-resident.gov.ee/">e-Residency</a> team of the Government of Estonia. 2016-2019</li>
<li>Informally advised <a href="https://www.stiftung-nv.de/sites/default/files/ai_foreign_policy.pdf">Germany</a>, <a href="https://www.2tokens.org/advisors">Netherlands</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/were-planning-to-launch-estcoin-and-that-s-only-the-start-310aba7f3790">Estonia</a>, and other governments about blockchain & AI strategies. Including public discussions (e.g. <a href="https://twitter.com/OdysseyHack/status/1222607737344921600">this</a>). 2015-2020</li>
<li>Ambassador to <a href="https://ai.xprize.org/">AI XPRIZE</a>. 2018-2023</li>
<li>Member of <a href="https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.trent.mcconaghy">Advisory Board of Lifeboat Foundation</a> 2020-ongoing</li>
<li>Startup/project advisor. Including: Balancer, SingularityNET, Binance Accelerator, Oasis. 2000-ongoing</a>
<li>Keynotes & invited talks. Examples: NASA, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, Santa Fe Institute, Jet Propulsion Lab, Sony, Nvidia, Samsung, Foresight Institute, TedX. 2001-ongoing</li>
<li>Co-organized workshops on AI/ML and circuits [e.g. <a href="http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/gptp-workshops/gptp2009/">1</a>,<a href="http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/gptp-workshops/gptp2010/">2</a>,<a href="http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~xinli/2012_ams/">3</a>,<a href="http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~xinli/2013_ams/">4</a>]. TPC / reviewer for many conferences & journals [e.g. <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10710">1</a>,<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=43">2</a>,<a href="http://www.ieee-cicc.org/">3</a>,<a href="http://www.dac.com/">4</a>,<a href="http://www.iccad.com/">5</a>]. Lecturer at Data Science Retreat [<a href="http://datascienceretreat.com/">link</a>]. </li>
<li>Organized meetup "Singularity Meets Self Improvement" [<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Singularity-meets-Self-Improvement-in-Berlin/">link</a>]. 2013-2016</li>
<li>Created & maintained <a href="http://www.tokenspice.com/">TokenSPICE</a> token simulator, 2020-2023</li>
<li>Member of <a href="https://metacartel.xyz/">MetaCartel Ventures</a>, 2020-2024</li>
<li>Co-organize <a href="https://www.meetup.com/berlin-machine-learning/">Berlin ML meetup</a> 2014-2022</li>
<li>More past projects: painting, BCI hacking, hypnosis, video game programming, surfing.</li>
<li>Raised in a pig farm in Canada, hacking away on cold winter nights. Wrote a 3D CAD tool, a wordprocessor, and dozens of games.</li>
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