### What is Algorand's binary serialization format?

*Posted by [vervious](https://forum.algorand.co/u/vervious) on Apr 18, 2019*

It makes sense to me, it is somewhat unique in my experience. Interestingly, you then are implicitly sort of requiring language support so you need to re-implement all of this in each language you want to use. And there are a lot of languages. It looks to me like there is a nice microservice brewing…

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### Algorand Welcomes Maurice Herlihy, Renowned Distributed Computing Expert

*Posted in [Announcements](https://forum.algorand.co/c/announcements/5) on Apr 10, 2019*

Maurice is currently a professor of computer science at Brown University, is the recipient of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science, the 2008 ISCA influential paper award, the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, and the 2013 Wallace McDowe…