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“…Since the term "artificial intelligence" was first proposed by John McCarthy in 1955, artificial intelligence has been evolving for more than half a century. It is gaining greater significance in our daily lives, and the importance of scientific research in the area is becoming increasingly prominent. …”

“…With parallel computing becoming more widespread with each passing day, SPAA has never been more relevant, and this year's program features research papers that range from highly theoretical to highly practical, and which consider parallelism at all scales, from multicore to massively parallel supercomputers. …”

“…MSP'02 is a new workshop that focuses on software techniques to address the memory wall.Given current technology trends that forecast a rapidly growing processor-memory speed imbalance, optimizing a program's memory system performance has become increasingly important. Much research has focused on improving the cache performance of scientific programs that use arrays as their primary data structure. …”

“…Since that time the conference has expanded its attendance beyond NSF funded researchers, has grown in size, and has truly become international in scope. This year is the first time the conference has been held outside the U.S. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Four core building blocks of blockchain framworks -- Additional capabilities to consider -- Fundamentals of the secure transaction processing protocol -- Where blockchain technology has been and where it's going -- The great divide -- An economic model for blockchain delivery -- Learning as we go -- The promise of trust and accountability -- Industries putting blockchain technology to work -- Blockchain in the enterprise -- What applications are a good fit? …”