Tag: Blockchain
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Q&A with Don Tapscott
Business executive Don Tapscott is a leader in adapting technology to business and society. With over 40 years of experience, he provides advice to global leaders at the World Economic Forum while also serving as a professor at the University of Toronto. Tapscott spoke at the Emerging Technologies Summit hosted by the Institute for Innovation…
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Institute organizes first tech summit
Students and faculty members at UTD had the opportunity to network with industry leaders during a summit focused on adapting companies to new technological discoveries. The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted the first annual Emerging Technologies Summit on April 18-19. The programs focused on financial technology and artificial intelligence while tying both topics back…
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Students bet on blockchain
Bitcoin gained international attention in early December when it experienced a meteoric rise in value, quickly followed by a nearly 50 percent drop. While one UTD professor has written the currency off as a speculative bubble waiting to burst, a UTD organization is capitalizing off the cryptocurrency boom. Computer science senior Michael Lewellen is president…