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# About Samuel M. Smith, PhD

keri.one's About page for Samuel M. Smith, the creator of KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure). It describes his academic background in electrical and computer engineering and research in automated reasoning and decentralized systems, his work as an entrepreneur, and his participation in open standards development. For readers who want to know who originated the suite.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence official (a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page).
Source: https://keri.one/131-2/ (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).