Computer architecture

Network as a service: A new vista of opportunities

January 1, 2022 by Junaid Qadir, Nadeem Ahmed, Faqir Zarrar Yousaf and Ali Taqweem

The networking industry, compared to the computer industry, has been slow in evolving from a closed ecosystem with limited abstractions to a more open ecosystem with well-defined, sophisticated, high-level abstractions. This has resulted in an ossified Internet architecture that inhibits innovation and is unnecessarily complex. Fortunately, there has been an exciting flux of … [Read more...] about Network as a service: A new vista of opportunities

Flight data acquisition and a unified analysis tool for the Vector-P unmanned aerial vehicle

January 1, 2022 by Guilherme Coelho da Silva Stanisce Correa and Osamu Saotome

This article presents a data acquisition system designed for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The previous version of the UAV data acquisition system relied on using commercial solutions like Micropilot and Icasim. By developing a custom data acquisition system, students can adapt it according to their needs. This allows rapid prototyping of a solution by using commercial … [Read more...] about Flight data acquisition and a unified analysis tool for the Vector-P unmanned aerial vehicle

University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI): Boosting blockchain education and research.

Since its conceptualization, blockchain technology has witnessed continuous and rapid development, bringing profound changes to computer science, law, and economics. In 2008, the initial blockchain system was merely a growing list of records linked together using cryptography. Today, however, blockchains have become the foundation of most digital currencies, robust cloud computing platforms, and dependable databases for tracking supply chain information. Despite challenges and controversies, blockchain technology has the potential to help build a trustworthy and efficient digital world.

However, the emerging blockchain technology has not yet been widely incorporated into current education systems, and there are still a lot of problems and challenges to be solved in this domain. To promote the popularization, development, and transformation of blockchain, Ripple founded the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), a global network of top universities around the world pursuing public education, academic research, technical development, and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and related financial technologies (FinTech). Since UBRI’s inception in 2018, Ripple has funded more than 40 university partnerships, supporting more than 500 research projects and new or modified course curricula for more than 280 university courses.

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