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What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provides the means to rapidly transition analog, human-led activities into automated digital activities.

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What is Public Key Infrastructure…

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PKI is the creation, issuance, management, distribution, usage, storage, and revocation of digital certificates.

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What is a Web of Trust?

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A Web of Trust is a decentralized, online identity verification system that is authenticated by ratings given by participants in interlinking reputation networks.

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What is Swarm Intelligence?

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Swarm Intelligence is a paradigm where a collection of simple, autonomous entities interact to create a group that exhibits complex behavior.

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What is a Botnet?

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A botnet is a large group of computers controlled by a single computer, most often used by hackers to launch denial of service attacks, send SPAM, mine for cryptocoin or conduct illegal activities.

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What is SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Technique)?

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SMOTE is a data science tool that mitigates the challenges of imbalances in data sets by synthesizing instances of the under-represented data.

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What is Julia?

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Julia is a high performance, open-source programming language sponsored by Darpa, Intel and IBM that is optimized for artificial intelligence, numerical analysis, and computational science.

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What is Homomorphic Encryption?

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Homomorphic Encryption is an encryption scheme that allows software to perform computations on encrypted data without having access to the unencrypted data.

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What is The Joint Artificial Information Center (JAIC)?

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The Joint Artificial Information Center is the premier artificial intelligence arm of the Department of Defense (DOD). JAIC is focused on delivering artificial intelligence solutions at a neck-break speed to all departments of the DOD.

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What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) is the means by which a distributed system, such as a blockchain network, screens out bad, outdated or incomplete information in order to maintain collective accuracy.

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What is Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)?

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Explainable Artificial Intelligence is a subset of AI decision making where the computer’s decision is explainable to humans and addresses the need to understand how conclusions are reached.

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What is Quantum Computing?

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Quantum Computing is a type of computing that exploits principles of quantum mechanics to enable new kinds of problems to be solved algorithmically via the creation of much smaller processors that operate orders of magnitude faster than today’s classical computers.

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