Phil Windley

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I'm retiring from BYU (after 29 years, albeit with some interruptions) and starting a new job with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Tags: identity aws security formal+methods automated+reasoning. Summary: I started a new job! I've been dark for a few weeks. Things have been busy. researchers. I'm excited to be working on it.

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Phil Windley

MAY 16, 2022

When we built the University API at BYU, we used decentralized decision making to make key architecture, governance, and implementation decisions. The conversation at IIW, CTO Breakfast, and BYU isn't the result a few smart people deciding what the group needed to hear and then arranging meetings to push it at them. Thanks Kaliya!

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Phil Windley

MAY 6, 2019

Pico Labs , my lab at BYU, demonstrated picos that acted as Hyperledger Indy agents and were able to connect to each other as well as other Indy agents like the AgentBook demo from Vonx. Tags: iiw sovrin indy hyperledger picos self-sovereign. This is a production service that can credentialize any SAML service. from NASA TV (CC0).

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Phil Windley

JUNE 25, 2018

I'll be speaking at this event on how we're using self-sovereign identity in a university setting at BYU. Tags: identity sovrin india. The Internet Identity Workshop organizers, Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, Heidi Saul, and myself, are helping organize this event, so it will be an unconference/open space event like IIW.

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Phil Windley

JULY 14, 2018

Tags: byu sovrin india identity aadhaar. Once they're available as verifiable credentials, they could be used in any digital scenario where foundation identity information is needed. As a bonus, thanks to minimal disclosure, most of the time the Aadhaar number wouldn't even have to be disclosed.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Students in my lab at BYU have been working on a prototype of such an interface we call Manifold using agent-enabled digital twins called " picos ". Tags: agents credentials decentralized+identifiers didcomm identity me2b ssi vrm iot picos. Photo Credit: Coffee Beans from JoseAlbaFotos (Pixabay license).

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I have one for Brigham Young University (BYU), my employer. Tags: sovrin metasystem identity credentials. Each of these credentials constitutes an identity system, designed and built for a specific purpose in a given context. For example, businesses frequently give employees ID cards.

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