Manufacturing.gov In a fiercely competitive global marketplace, innovation alone is no longer enough. Many nations, including the United States, are driving innovation to implementation through a whole-of-government approach. Accordingly, the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to create a competitive, effective, and sustainable manufacturing research-to-manufacturing infrastructure.
What is Blockchain technology – Vinay Gupta explains This is important and relevant. Its impact will be felt way outside of ICT and transactions that rely on TRUST. Introduction Key to the Network Society under construction is that everything in the value chains that do not (or only now and then) add any recognizable value will be kicked out of the chain or bypassed. The Blockchain Explained to Web Developers, Part 3: The Truth After exploring the blockchain theory and using it for real, we now have a better understanding of its strengths and weaknesses. Surprisingly, most of our conclusions are very different from what you will read in the blogosphere. Maybe it’s because we don’t blindly relay the fascination caused by the huge valuations of BitCoin and others.
Business Process Management (BPM) Software Every organization has business processes—it’s how work is accomplished. But, too many organizations rely on outdated procedures, with reliance on paper forms or other manual steps. By becoming comfortable in how they get work done, leaders and workers alike cost their organizations a lot more than lost efficiencies.
What is Ether How are ethers created? The total supply of ether and its rate of issuance was decided by the donations gathered on the 2014 presale. The results were roughly: 60 million ether created to contributors of the presale12 Million (20% of the above) were created to the development fund, most of it going to early contributors and developers and the remaining to the Ethereum Foundation5 ethers are created every block (roughly 15 seconds) to the miner of the block2-3 ethers are sometimes sent to another miner if they were also able to find a solution but his block wasn't included (called uncle/aunt reward) Note that after the Byzantium update is implemented, the mining and uncle reward is reduced to 3 ethers and 0.625-2.625 ethers, respectively. The Blockchain Explained to Web Developers, Part 1: The Theory The blockchain is the new hot technology. If you haven’t heard about it, you probably know Bitcoin. Well, the blockchain is the underlying technology that powers Bitcoin. Experts say the blockchain will cause a revolution similar to what Internet provoked. But what is it really, and how can it be used to build apps today?
How will you prepare your kids for the world of work? A wise old sage once told me that being parent is like being an archer complete with bow and arrow—your kids are your arrows and your job as a parent is to take aim, fire, and with fingers crossed hope they hit their mark. I liked that analogy because one of my kids is about to select her options for her exams at 16 and thoughts all round are turning to what she wants to do. Being part of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, means for once she might actually listen to what I have to say! Last week’s FT was awash with stories about robots and the great hallowing out of the professional class but don’t rush out to sound the death knell of the job or career just yet. Survey data from my latest report People—not just Machines—Powers Digital Innovation shows that prospects for the “job” are actually rather good. According to the survey, 40% of respondents expected staff numbers to increase over the next three years while 40% revealed that they would stay more or less constant.
The Blockchain for Education: An Introduction 16 min read Is blockchain poised to be “the next big thing” in education? This has become a question I hear with increasing frequency about a technology that, up until quite recently, was primarily associated with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The subtext to the question, I suppose: do educators need to pay attention to the blockchain? Cognizant Technology Solutions A paperless ICU and better post-op care Narayana Health Open-heart surgery patients at Narayana Health are living longer, healthier lives as a result of the hospital’s paperless intensive care unit, where a family of iPad apps integrates with medical equipment to feed medical teams instant, relevant patient data that improves care during the critical first hours after surgery. Cognizant collaborated with Narayana Health to develop an automated and digitally transformed ICU system that brings a single, accurate window on patient status to an iPad at each patient’s bed.
The Blockchain Explained to Web Developers, Part 2: In Practice Is the blockchain a revolution? The technology that powers Bitcoin sure has the potential to disrupt the entire Internet, as we explained in a previous post. But how can you, a developer, use the blockchain to build applications? Are the tools easy to use, despite the complexity of the underlying concepts? How good is the developer experience? Getting Started Eris is the ecosystem application platform built by Monax. There are four steps need to get moving with Eris: Install the platform.Roll the blockchain base for your ecosystem application.Deploy your ecosystem application using smart contract templates and a simple, web-based user interface.Integrate your ecosystem application with a web server or other microservices.
Stephen Hawking: This will be the impact of automation and AI on jobs British scientist Prof. Stephen Hawking gives his 'The Origin of the Universe' lecture to a packed hall December 14, 2006 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Hawking suffers from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrigs disease), which has rendered him quadriplegic, and is able to speak only via a computerized voice synthesizer which is operated by batting his eyelids. David Silverman/Getty Images Consensus (computer science) A fundamental problem in distributed computing is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires processes to agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Examples of applications of consensus include whether to commit a transaction to a database, agreeing on the identity of a leader, state machine replication, and atomic broadcasts.
Understanding the 4 Types of A.I. The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, distinguish pictures, drive cars and play games better than we do. How much longer can it be before they walk among us? The new White House report on artificial intelligence takes an appropriately skeptical view of that dream.