Multiparty Session Types (MPST) provide a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying the correctness of communications in distributed systems. Rooted in the notion of behavioural types, MPST ...

Advances in technology have revolutionized the way businesses communicate internally and externally. In many ways, communicating via email, text message and instant message opens up channels for the ...

Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern. You know the routine: The IT industry, ...

A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...

Last month we wrote about the different components that form contactless smart card chips and we followed the manufacturing process from silicon to finished card. This month we’ll take a more in-depth ...

Blockchains were developed as standalone systems, each with its own set of rules and mechanisms. Although this makes for a more decentralized system, it is also a limitation for blockchain networks as ...