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Jack Feser

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Jack Feser

Research Scientist, Basis Research Institute

Jack Feser is a research scientist at Basis. He was previously an assistant professor of computer science at Hamilton College and completed his Ph.D. at MIT with Armando Solar-Lezama. His research interests are in programming languages and automated programming, particularly as applied to relational databases.

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Education

  • PhD, Computer Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Previous Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    Hamilton College

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Pact: Trustworthy Coordination for Multi-Agentic Ecosystems

April 23, 2026

Multi-agentic ecosystems are becoming commonplace, but how can we trust them? We propose Pact, a formal coordination language that unifies ideas from game theory, distributed systems and cryptography to enable trustworthy multi-agent coordination.