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The Impact and Ethics of Conversational Artificial Intelligence
Improvements in natural language understanding and our changing relationship means we can use chatbots in ways we couldn’t before - both to augment human conversation and support, or indeed, to replace it. Those working in the software industry must understand and take responsibility for how we use Conversational AI and our users' data.
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Exploring HyperLedger: Experience in Being a Framework Early Adopter
Some time ago OpenGift explored deploying a HyperLedger-based blockchain within a production environment. This article presents a story of our attempts to integrate it and the problems we encountered.
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Two Sides of a Coin: Blockchain, Ethics and Human Rights
Blockchain is, for many people, still synonymous with cryptocurrencies and financial applications, but it has enormous potential as a tool for the common good. This article explores whether blockchain could help good causes and discusses whether the lessons from ethics could benefit the blockchain community.
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Understanding Blockchain Basics and Use Cases
We discuss the two main types of blockchain solution, and some of the major variants deployed today. Use cases for the different solutions are also explored.
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InfoQ’s 2018, and What We Expect to See in 2019
We take a look back at what we say on infoQ in 2018, and think about what the next year might bring.
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The Current State of Blockchain - Panel Discussion (Part 2)
The final two panelists introduce themselves and share their views of the current state of the Blockchain world. We're joined by Richard Brown, CTO at R3 and David Gerard, journalist and author of "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain"
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The Current State of Blockchain - Panel Discussion (Part 1)
The first two panelists introduce themselves and give their view of the current state of blockchain. John Davies, CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments, and Conor Svensson, author of the web3j library for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain, give their view on the current state of blockchain.
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Book Review: Solidity Programming Essentials
Ethereum is an emerging technology that promises the ability to disintermediate many traditional approaches to business through decentralized ledger technology, built upon open-source software. In this article, we will review a recent book based upon Solidity, a programming language used to construct smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
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Seth James Nielson on Blockchain Technology for Data Governance
Seth James Nielson recently hosted a tutorial workshop at Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference about Blockchain technology and its impact on data architecture and data governance.
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Evaluating Hyperledger Composer
Hyperledger Composer is a new open source project which makes it easy for developers to write chaincode for Hyperledger Fabric and the decentralized applications (DApps) that can call them. This article summarizes a technical evaluation of the performance characteristics of using Composer in a test application.
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Cats, Qubits, and Teleportation: The Spooky World of Quantum Computation Applications (Part 3)
The same factors which make quantum theory so startling also make quantum computers very difficult to implement in practice: quantum phenomena don't manifest themselves in everyday life. Given the cost, size, and physical delicacy of quantum computers, they're a perfect fit for the 'pay per use' cloud consumption model.
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Cats, Qubits, and Teleportation: The Spooky World of Quantum Algorithms (Part 2)
Quantum information theory really took off once people noticed that the computational complexity of quantum systems was actually a computational capacity, which could be applied to other problems, such as factorization, which is used within public key cryptography. This article explores quantum algorithms and their applicability.