Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Discover how industry organizations need to converge on concrete guiding principles and a definition for smart manufacturing, in order to achieve the next phase of Industry 4.0—democratization of ...

Smart and intelligent are two terms widely used in the world of technology. They both imply the use of software and/or computer chips, but "smart" has caught on as a prefix for every type of automated ...

The digital revolution transforming various industries—illustrated by our articles on smart factories and smart cities—is profoundly reshaping the electricity sector. Governments, energy utilities, ...

An application on Ethereum, Solana or other programmable blockchain. Smart contracts mostly govern financial arrangements; for example, they enable new cryptocurrencies to be established, and they ...

What’s a “smart city”? It’s a fair question, but a hard one to answer. Many larger municipalities have embraced the “smart city” concept in recent years, but definitions of the term — and examples of ...