Artificial intelligence is no longer just a subject of science fiction. From personal assistants to self-driving cars, AI is revolutionizing everyday life. It’s also revolutionizing scientific discovery. With new algorithms and giant leaps in computing power, AI is accelerating advances in science and technology. ORNL is leading efforts to bring AI into the scientific mainstream.
Blockchain simplified: How it eliminates the middleman
What’s the big promise of blockchain in business? Its ability to eliminate the middle man.
Blockchain is basically a ledger of people’s transactions. It is the underlying programming on top of which the cryptocurrency bitcoin was developed.
Blockchain doesn’t allow for people’s transactions to be hacked because everyone has access to a record of the values exchanged. Because of this, it is said to be unhackable.
Blockchain has many potential uses, such as in accounting systems. This is already the case in Dubai, where
Tony Saldanha is a Fortune 25 executive in the Global Business Services (GBS) and Information Technology area. During a 27-year career at Procter & Gamble, Saldanha ran IT and GBS in every region of the world, helping create a multi-billion dollar best-in-class operation. He currently provides advice to boards and CEOs in Fortune 500 companies on digital transformation, especially on internal business operations. He is the author of “Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead”
Theoretical underpinnings of decentralization and distributed systems
Blockchain as a driver of fundamental economic transformation and automation in institutional governance.
The Future of Marketing and AI
Pauline Pangan from AFDigital, talks about the disruptive trends in marketing and how businesses can leverage the power of AI in her session entitled Machine Learning from Marketing Past.
Blockchain to Revolutionize the Economy
Blockchain is transforming the economy by affecting almost every industry.
What is Cryptocurrency? Easy To Understand Video
A digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security. A cryptocurrency is difficult to counterfeit because of this security feature. Cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed in value over the last few years. Almost everyone has heard about Bitcoin, but how many people actually know what Bitcoin is? How many people know where they come from and how they work? This video will tell you everything you need to know about cryptocurrencies in an easy to understand format.
Wojciech Zurek – Why is the Quantum so Mysterious?
Particles at two places at the same time—superposition. Particles communicating instantly with no respect to distance—entanglement. How to make sense of such weirdness? Quantum mechanics is how the world works at
Picking the Right Blockchain for the Job
In this talk, Andreas Antonopoulos asks which blockchain is the best blockchain, and then shows why that question falls short. He argues that we should choose tools that are best designed for the applications we want to build. but must also understand that what we create may be used by the market in unanticipated ways, and that function may change over time. Form follows function… sometimes.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in Bitcoin. He is the author of “Mastering Bitcoin,” “The Internet of Money” series, and “Mastering Ethereum.”
A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Contracts
Smart contracts help you exchange money, property, shares, or anything of value in a transparent, conflict-free way while avoiding the services of a middleman. The best way to describe smart contracts is to compare the technology to a vending machine.
Ordinarily, you would go to a lawyer or a notary, pay them, and wait while you get the document. With smart contracts, you simply drop a bitcoin into the vending machine (i.e. ledger), and your escrow, driver’s license, or whatever drops into your account. More so, smart contracts not only define the rules and penalties around an agreement in the same way that a traditional contract does, but also automatically enforce those obligations.
What is nanotechnology?
A short introduction to nanotechnology, and why you should care about it – from author of Films from the Future and ASU professor Andrew Maynard.