Join us for our next Emerging Technology Speaker Series event as we unpack cryptocurrency and what it means to consumers. UMass Lowell’s Chris Wilkinson, an adjunct professor in political science explores cryptocurrencies and how these new financial mechanisms work. The talk covers the rise, fall and rise again of Bitcoin and alternative-coins as well as why the underlying distributed architecture of cryptographic digital assets are important for everything from medical records to artificial intelligence.The UMass Lowell Innovation Hub Haverhill is located at 2 Merrimack St.