Here Is a Summary of the Materials We Read at the K-SEC Meeting on July 3Rd, 2017

K-SEC Meeting Summary July 3, 2017

Here is a summary of the materials we read at the K-SEC meeting on July 3rd, 2017.

A. Attendees (in ABC order):

Kanzawa, Kotake, Nishimura, Nishiwaki, Sekiguchi, Shirashouji, Tomozawa, Tsurumoto, Umemura (Total of 9)

B. Materials read:

1. AI Speaker- Shirashoji This material is taken from Metro News and Mail Online. AI speaker has been getting lots of attention in terms of near future business potential as a post smart phone. Talking is the new touching, as voice-controlled AI speakers are this year’s big tech trend. The past decade has been dominated by touchscreen devices, but a new revolution is brewing – voice-controlled systems powered by artificial intelligence. Instead of controlling everything via apps, we’ll be talking to virtual assistants to control everything from our computers to our home lighting, according to analysts. The waves of new products are likely to go on show that will look to build on the early success of the Amazon Echo and Google Home, two smart home systems which went on sale in 2016. Both products connect to the internet and can link up with other internet-enabled devices and appliances around homes, including TVs, lights and thermostats, enabling users to control all these items using just voice commands. The success of the Amazon Echo smart speaker was determined by the software platform, not the hardware, it is realized AI will go on to be the biggest technology trend of 2017 because of this shift. It said the emergence of smart home devices such as the Echo that are driven by AI and machine learning will cause a 1.5% growth in industry revenue in the US alone this year. Apple declares war on Amazon and Google's smart speakers with HomePod. Smart HomePod speaker will uses Siri to play music and answer questions using Apple's AI Apple has unveiled a new smart 'HomePod' home speaker and added augmented reality to the iPhone at its 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

At the present Apple seems to have only strategy of high quality sound system to win the business since Amazon's Echo and Google Home are well accepted in the market and one step ahead of Apple in the cognition and machine learning technology.

2. What is Bitcoin? - Nishimura

1 The following text is taken from the World Economic Forum and The Logical Indian. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which means it exists only in the digital world. It was developed in 2009 by someone and is based on a payment system that allows one person to pay another, without the need for any middle parties, such as banks. A person holds their bitcoins in a bitcoin wallet - in a mobile app or computer - and can send and receive bitcoins through it. The bitcoin transactions run on a system called blockchain. This is a public ledger, which holds a record of every single transaction. But not everything is rosy in the bitcoin world. There is a limit to how many transactions can be processed in a given time-frame, and the increase in transactions has meant a slowing down of payments. But there are more mundane problems, like the fact that it suffers from price fluctuations. And, like any software based system, it’s also vulnerable to attack. There is the matter of how different countries treat the currency. Some treat it as a commodity, but others treat it like money. Some prohibit its use entirely. Governments don’t like the fact that bitcoin users are anonymous, and they have concerns over its use for criminal activity and money laundering. Is it here to stay? In short - no one really knows just yet.

C. Role assignment for July 17, 2017

Sadayasu, Kanzawa