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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.
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Cats, Qubits, and Teleportation: The Spooky World of Quantum Computation (Part One)
By the time most of us reach adulthood, we know a few basic truths: cats cannot be simultaneously alive and dead; objects at opposite ends of the universe can’t affect each other; and computers operate on 0s and 1s, and that’s the most fundamental unit of information. The premise of quantum computation is that these truths are partially wrong.
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How Technology Is Impacting the Future of Work through Fragmentation
One of the side effects of technology’s evolution is that it fragments existing architectures and creates new structures in the process. AI and Blockchain are currently doing this, but this pattern has been seen before and will continue as tech evolves. According to Kary Bheemaiah, fragmentation is impacting the future of work; it’s a tech-lead reality to be observed and leveraged when possible.
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Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas
The traditional Oil and Gas Industry is being transformed by a new wave of digital disruptive technologies. To remain profitable, oil and gas companies must consider how to gain operational efficiencies through improved use of technology, such as cloud platforms, and process, such as the adoption of agile methodologies. This article explores challenges within implementing these technologies
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Book Review: Building Blockchain Projects
This book provides an introductory look at building Ethereum smart contracts. It covers both Solidity and web3.js and is aimed at developers who already know how to program in Javascript. Experienced developers may find the book somewhat entry-level, but it does attempt to introduce concepts beyond just "Hello World" smart contracts.
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Mastering Blockchain: Book Review and Author Q&A
Blockchain was invented in 2008 for Bitcoin to solve the main issue with digital currencies, i.e., the possibility that a token be spent more than once by duplicating it. Packt Publishing Mastering Blockchain by Imran Bashir aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Blockchain, a technology that is claimed to be able to revolutionise our society and impact every industry.
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Book Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
David Gerard's 2017 book, "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain" is an in-depth look at the cryptocurrency space. The book takes a straightforwardly skeptical angle, and is explicitly intended as a non-technical overview that frames Bitcoin in purely political and economic terms.
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Building a Blockchain PoC in Ten Minutes Using Hyperledger Composer
This article examines what businesses look for when considering blockchain’s role in their organization and how the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Composer can help application developers easily create compelling blockchain solutions for the enterprise.
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Deterministic Execution on the JVM
For many use cases (for example cryptocurrency ledgers), we need to ensure that any action will execute deterministically and terminate. In this article, Ben Evans reviews the theory behind the WhitelistClassLoader.