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On Wednesday 7 September 2022, MEP Peter van Dalen (EPP Group, The Netherlands) hosted a conference with the title Human Rights & the Artsakh War 2020 in the European Parliament (EP). The conference was co-organized by the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD).

The keynote speakers were the Human rights defender of the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh Republic Gegham Stepanyan and the legal representative of the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) before ECHR Siranush Sahakyan.

The conference was widely attended by Members of the European Parliament (MEP) from different political groups, EP advisers, politicians, diplomats, and representatives of civil society.

MEP Peter van Dalen reiterated his commitment to the cause:

I stand with the Armenian people. The life of the Armenian inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, and their cultural heritage is under threat. We should not accept a status quo but ensure the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have a future in their historic region.

In his opening remarks, the EAFJD President Kaspar Karampetian welcomed the participants and thanked MEP van Dalen for hosting the conference:

The second Artsakh war in 2020 launched by Azerbaijan was another attempt to carry out an ethnic cleansing of the native Armenian population of Artsakh. The native Armenian peoples right to live freely and independently in their homeland is a fundamental human right. The European Parliament condemned the state-level policy of Armenophobia by Azerbaijan by an urgent resolution, which is another acknowledgement that the native Armenian people cannot live under Azerbaijani rule, added the EAFJD President.

The keynote speakers addressed the gross violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by Azerbaijan during the Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh war in 2020 and in its aftermath.

The Human rights defender of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, Gegham Stepanyan underlined:

Azerbaijans policyof ethnic cleansing, threats,use of force,psychological attacksare aimedaimedat disrupting normal lifeandcause uncertainty about the future among theArmenianpopulation of Artsakh. This uncertainty is aggravated especially due to the fact that the status of Nagorno-Karabakh is not clearly addressed in current negotiations, including through the mediationbythe European Union.

After giving an overview from the legal perspective, including the relevant judgements of international courts against Azerbaijan, Siranush Sahakyan, the legal representative of the Armenian POWs before ECHR elaborated:

Anti-Armenian xenophobia has become a defining feature of Azerbaijan, which manifests itself in forms of hate speech, maltreatment of prisoners of Armenian descent, glorification of ethnic violence against Armenians, ethnic cleansing, denial of history.

The interventions were followed by a question-and-answer session with the participants of the event, including Azerbaijanis.

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2020 has been a hectic year with the coronavirus pandemic affecting our lives in an unprecedented manner. However, with scientists and researchers working tirelessly, it was a great year for technological advancements and achievements. The breakthrough technologies mentioned in the article will surely affect our lifestyle in the years to come.

These are gifts of technology that have been the highlight of the first year of this decade:

You may be aware of the fact that the internet we use today is extremely vulnerable to hacks and exploits by people with questionable intentions. For the past few years, data scientists and analysts have been working on creating the first quantum internet that would be completely secure from hackers.

The Delft University of Technology, one of the big organizations working on this project, has successfully developed this technology. In a presentation, Physicist Ronald Hanson at the Delft University of Technology along with his collaborators linked three devices in such a way that any two devices in the network ended up with mutually entangled quantum bits.

These quantum bits are used for transmitting information and communicating with other devices the use of entanglement makes it almost impossible for hackers to snoop around the user devices.

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In this digital age, the use of cash is continuously declining. Cash transactions need intermediaries and in each stage, there is a considerable markup. On the other hand, digital money, like Libra by Facebook exists only in its digital form, which can lead to a breach of financial privacy.

Digital money can be beneficial for instantaneous transactions and may also mean that parties would have to go through minimal or no intermediaries at all. Like cryptocurrencies using blockchain technology, which is decentralized, digital currency can potentially break the global financial system into small fragments.

Though many have dreamed of it, using a quantum computer to outperform classical computers cannot be implemented daily just yet. Google has developed a Sycamore quantum processor, which can be used to achieve quantum supremacy.

In a test, Sycamore could determine a set of randomly distributed numbers in three minutes and 20 seconds, which would have taken 10,000 years for a classical computer. Even though the results of the tests and calculations were impressive, we are still years away from using quantum computers to solve problems that classical computers cannot handle.

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Differential privacy can help organizations collect and share collected user data while keeping their identities private. The 2020 US Census, which is the largest-scale application would use differential privacy while distributing population data.

This technology aims to maximize data usage without disclosing the user identity. Differential privacy ensures the unavailability of raw data to database managers or data scientists and allows organizations to tackle privacy-related problems and build trust.

With the help of improved computing capabilities of newly developed processors, scientists can now make proper reports of how climate changes can affect severe weather events. Civilians and the military can now prepare in advance in case of natural disasters due to weather conditions.

Further, it also gives enough evidence to hold responsible authorities and the government responsible for not taking necessary steps when needed. Climate change can cause immeasurable loss of lives and properties, and proper climate change attributions would help the people take proper and necessary precautionary measures.

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With thousands of people worldwide having unique ailments and disorders, traditional medication cannot help them all. Have you ever wondered how this problem can be solved by producing medication for a particular case? This way, scientists and doctors can help cure rare genetic disorders and rare diseases.

The dream of achieving hyper-personalized medication is not too far and will bring hope and joy to several people all over the world. Medicines tailored to the exact needs of a single patient will treat and cure ailments that went untreated earlier. This was without a doubt, one of the best technological advancements in the field of medicine.

Aiming to provide high-speed internet services all over the world, satellite mega-constellations projects were a great success. It is the much-awaited solution to unreliable WiFi signals and fluctuating cellular networks. Satellite mega-constellations would enable global connectivity for almost everyone with a proper device.

However, the development and implementation of this technology bring a few major concerns. Space will be littered with several small satellite mega-constellations to bring unhindered connectivity to everyone.

Also, in the absence of a set of international rules and regulations and authority to enforce them, major industry leaders can end up exploiting its uses. This would lead to major problems and lead to unbridled chaos.

Long gone are the days when users would have to depend on heavy computer setups to use powerful AI algorithms. Nowadays, handheld devices like mobile phones and household appliances are capable of using AI programs without even interacting with the cloud.

With the development of tiny AI, developers and software enthusiasts can work to shrink the size of existing and new AI models without losing their efficiency and functionalities. Accessing AI models from our devices involve no latency due to the lack of interaction with the cloud and hence there are fewer privacy-related concerns.

Currently, big tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon as well as IBM are leading the market with the application and implementation of tiny AI technology.

Since ancient times, adventurers, researchers, and philosophers have spent their lives finding the answer to their aging problems. The wait is almost over as doctors and scientists have developed drugs that can help slow down your aging.

These drugs can be very useful for patients suffering from diseases like cancer, dementia, and heart-related problems by slowing down the aging process. Though a lot of research has not been conducted yet, initial trials have proved these drugs to be safe for humans.

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Working with technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, scientists and data scientists are using AI to discover molecules that can affect the healthcare industry greatly.

With the discovery of the antibiotic Halicin using Artificial Intelligence, medical science has gained a golden opportunity to develop exponentially. Though using AI for healthcare is not new, this was the first time AI has identified a completely new antibiotic variety without any human intervention or assumptions.

Though this may be a very expensive process due to the rarity of the molecules in question, AI can help bring down the cost of production to a great extent. It can evaluate and use molecules effectively and efficiently, which might not be possible for human scientists.

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Cloud migration has become a tech buzzword across enterprises worldwide. However, to be an effective cloud user means not only getting introduced to the concept, but also thoroughly evaluating your existing IT infrastructure and processes, identifying their potential in moving to cloud, and effectively planning your migration strategy. Given the many advantages of migration, businesses are looking to tap into the long-term benefits of cloud computing, which include:

Conducting an objective and accurate assessment of their existing services, applications, security, and network infrastructure has been a challenge for organizations. Numerous discovery tools, including Cloudscape, Cloudamize, Device42, and TSO Logic, can help you understand your on-premise infrastructure.

Though these discovery tools do a good job in terms of understanding the infra estate as well as other basic information like CPU, RAM, disk storage, and OS, they have their own limitations. Mostly, the assessments are far from being accurate during and after migration. This is because the organizations do not go deeper in terms of understanding the applications and the business. The most common challenges of cloud migration are:

Broad basing the discovery

The good news, however, is that none of these challenges are insurmountable. To make the migration process as smooth as possible, we need to discover or analyze the source code, configurations, applications, and databases too and not just focus on infra discovery.

This helps to better understand the internal dependencies of applications and the roadblocks in the migration process. Both static and dynamic analyzers should be used together with the infra discovery tool to have a fail-proof migration.

As static analyzers help understand the components of applications and their dependencies on 3rd-party applications, it helps analyze the impact of re-platforming or refactoring the application. This is where AI and ML can be used in conjunction with these mechanisms to get a better understanding.

The ML and AI journey to cloud

With Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in cloud becoming mainstream, organizations are able to overcome these challenges. AI/ML automatically generate insights from data. From predictive maintenance in manufacturing plants and fraud detection in financial services to accelerating scientific discovery, businesses of all types can benefit from this technology.

This has also given rise to applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and search engines that rival human interaction capabilities. As the dynamic and complex business environments of the modern times require a shift to data-driven decision making, there is a growing demand for robust, lineage, governance, and risk mitigation tactics.

ID2C Changing the game of data discovery

ID2C is TCS proprietary ML-driven tool, which combines discovery tool and static analyzers outputs along with other available data and intelligently deduces technology stack and dependencies to derive more value. This enables accurate identification of a variety of different technologies from different vendors even when they are seemingly disconnected. TCS AWS business unit conducts assessment projects worth $5M every year while influencing more than $100M foundation, migration, and operations projects.

AI/ML-driven data discovery combined with anomaly detection is a critical aspect of big data and cloud cost optimization and has the potential to save enterprises significant amounts of money. So why did we create an artificial intelligence-based platform for enhanced data discovery? Benefits include:

As cloud native transformations are being increasingly sought after, TCS ID2C tool built on AWS cloud helps enterprises in their cloud journey by helping understand the on-premise environment better and thereby derives correct strategies to transform their application portfolio now and in the future.

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Guruprasad Kambaloor works as a Chief Architect in the AWSBU division of TCS. Guru has a rich experience of 26+ years in the IT industry spanning many domains like Healthcare, Life Sciences, E&R, Banking, and multiple technologies like Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, Quantum Computing. Currently he heads the Platform Engineering for AWSBU which has built platforms like Cloud Counsel, Cloud Mason, Migration Factory, Exponence to name a few. His current interests are AI/ML, Quantum Computing, and its relevance/usage in Cloud.

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NTT DATA plans to invest in six global innovation centres this August, extending existing centres of excellence and expanding its network of labs. Each region has specific technological focuses, with the European hubs focusing on quantum computing, cyber security, and the metaverse. The two new centres in Italy and Germany join the already established network of European labs including Epworth House in London, Milan, and its Living Lab in Barcelona.

NTT DATA is increasing its commitment to applied research and innovation in EMEA, China, the Americas, and South-East Asia. It is broadening technological horizons from genomics research in Japan to LiDAR in China and smart city planning in North America. A lateral focus on regions from the United States to China and Japan allows instantaneous sharing of information and an end to asynchronous, siloed scientific efforts.

Aimed at concentrating resources on cutting-edge technologies with the potential to become mainstream in five to ten years, NTT DATA is generating new business through joint R&D projects in strategic locations. It is prioritising areas with a high sensitivity to the latest technologies and thriving, innovative technological systems. Joint programmes with leading companies, universities, and start-ups will enable the Innovation Centres to accumulate information on advanced technologies in their region. Furthermore, NTT DATA aims to expand its network of experts to 300 by the end of the 2025 fiscal year, growing its world-leading capabilities and offering of unique expertise on emerging technologies such as quantum computing and the metaverse. The viability of this investment is validated by the successes of the pre-existing European lab network.

Early successes of these labs have included advancements in digital twin and quantum computing. This involves using the new computational paradigms inherent in quantum machinery to help partners find optimal combinations of millions of possible options and model increasingly complex financial scenarios. Digital twin technology has led to the 3D digitalisation of cities likeLas VegasandRome,improving public safety and tackling pollution.

Since their launch in 2019, our UK labs in London have continued to invest in emerging technologies. This includes the recent material applications of digital twin computing through the use ofshot-tracking technologyat 150thThe Open in collaboration with The R&A, partnerships with Great Ormond St. HospitalsDRIVE(Digital Research, Informatics and Virtual Environments) lab, and a wide range of start-ups and scaleups in emerging technologies from virtual and augmented reality to applications of machine learning.

Tom Winstanley, CTO and Head of New Ventures atNTT DATA UK&I, said:Its fantastic to see that innovation has no borders. NTT DATA is extending its reach globally in almost every major landmass on the globe. This signals great things for Europe and the UK as we collaborate on research with our colleagues in Japan, China, and the US, as well as intensifying the European lab network.

This investment increases our opportunities to work with academia and tap into the innovation ecosystem in this region. We create value for our clients by using or creating the latest technology, and that starts in the lab. Good research deserves to be rewarded, and Im delighted that NTT DATA is committing to the material applications of these exciting new technologies.

Early successes in quantum computing and AI show the depth of our experts knowledge and hands-on capabilities. I look forward to the new wave of globally informed digital solutions and innovation that our lab network can produce going forward.

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It is impossible to know for sure what technology will be available in a century, but we can anticipate an overview if we take a look at the advances that are taking place in the three main areas of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) : the hardware (devices and machines), communications (wired and mobile networks) and software (services and applications). These three fields go hand in hand, although the hardware rule the evolutionary race.

Today, we are still using transistor technology that imposes limits on processing power and data storage. In fact, in recent years, the rate of increase in storage volume and processing speed that can be achieved in ever smaller devices has slowed. Quantum computers promise to overcome all these limits. I imagine that in 100 years there will be genuine quantum computers. Then it will be possible to quickly carry out operations that now take years or that cannot be done directly with a conventional computer. Quantum computing is still a chimera and we should not believe everything that is said about it. Companies like Google and IBM have their own versions of quantum computers, but their papers are essentially marketing and his experiments are not always verified. What seems indisputable is that this is the future, so universities are taking this seriously, a lot of research is being done and courses are being taught to undergraduates.

Second, we have communications. Here the great challenge is to connect people and objects of all kinds at high speed. The great revolution that we have experienced with mobile communications has been spectacular. We have not yet finished implementing 5G and we are already working on 6G. We are close to achieving a response time of less than a millisecond and further expanding the bandwidth, already close to gigabytes, which in a hundred years will be on the order of Teras or more. With 6G will come the integration of artificial intelligence and image processing natively as part of the mobile network, which will multiply the massive data transmission capacity and we will do it in a sustainable way, with low emissions, better than now. Some experts believe that in the future, people will be implanted with processors of some kind to remotely and wirelessly monitor, for example, our health.

All this allows to advance in the third leg that is the software. Because if you manage to connect two objects or a person with an object in milliseconds, you will be able to do things like operate remotely with a robot, control any object or robot from your mobile, or improve the interaction of autonomous vehicles with the environment. If we talk about the development software and applications, when quantum computing becomes a reality, all operating systems and applications will have to be reprogrammed to adapt to new computers and human-machine interfaces will change. Through augmented reality we will display a virtual screen on a wall or in the air, that is, a support will not be necessary. This means that in 100 years the real world and the virtual world will be one. We will see the real objects, but with more information that augmented reality will give you and you will be able to interact with them just by moving your hands with very simple gestures, with glasses or with a cap. It is what people demand, simple solutions to control machines.

As for programming, the current trend is for girls and boys to learn programming from an early age. That seed that we are sowing is going to germinate and these girls and boys are going to be much more capable of developing applications without having to study a computer science degree. In other words, the ability to program will be a basic skill for most, or many, people. This will mean that people will be able to program applications to suit them, for their business or for leisure.

With the evolution of these three technological legs that I am talking about, we will have the possibility of having applications that will greatly develop some fields. An obvious one is telemedicine: we will have virtual family doctors, who will diagnose with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). And speaking of AI, there are many problems that are still intractable because we dont have enough computing power, but when quantum computing becomes a fact, it will also take off AI beyond current limits. Home automation will also advance a lot. We will have robots at home, not necessarily with a human appearance, but they will be the ones that take care of us and have us constantly monitored. This will not be so difficult, since, in the end, a person who takes care of, for example, an elderly person, what he does is watch him, see if he is sick, if he needs to eat, help him if he has a problem and if he cannot solve it, call who can do it. These care robots will do the same, but with greater safety and more skills.

Lydia Fuentes Fernandez She is a doctor in computer science engineering and professor of Telematics Engineering at the University of Malaga.

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