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Just as I am writing these posts I stumbled on the Wired article published yesterday  “Humans can’t be the sole keepers of Scientific Knowledge“. Worth reading. According to that article 190,000 scientific papers will be published this year, 2021, more than 1 every 3 minutes. If you plan to dedicate …

The area of Personal Cognitive Digital Twins is very recent and is evolving rapidly. The Digital Reality Initiative was one of the first to study the aspect of representing knowledge owned by a person (and a company) in a digital form mapping it onto the IEEE knowledge ontology (some 14,000 …

In the past decade digital cameras (including the now extinguished point and shoot, killed by smartphones) have learnt to look at the scene you are about to shoot to single out some detail, like a smile, a face, even a dog and automatically focus on that object. Some cameras can …

In the last post I discussed the application of Digital Twins to people, modelling their physiological characteristics, with obvious application in Healthcare and in the previous one in this series the use of Digital Twins to model knowledge of machines, Cognitive Digital Twins -CDTs. It is time now to consider …

Technologically speaking, stepping up from Digital Twins applied in Industry to Digital Twins applied in Healthcare (hospital equipment, medical equipment, pharma…) was a small step, like it was a small step to move from equipment and processes used in healthcare to modelling people although this modelling had to take into …

At the end of 2020 I included in the Megatrends for this decade the use of artificial intelligence to design new alloys. There is a potential huge space for mixing atoms of different elements (plus using additive manufacturing we could create specific atomic structures!) and because of that we can …

As artificial intelligence is progressing we can shift from pure syntactical interactions to semantic based interaction. This is what happens with the newest robots that are more and more aware of: their surrounding the problem space they are addressing the goal they pursue the” help” they can get from other …

I remember when I was young (that was a long, long time ago), computers were perceived as electronic brains with a mixed feeling of expectation and fear. As a boy having to spend hours on books I dreamt of the possibility to download the knowledge from the books into my …

When computer started to become part of our imagination, some 60-70 years ago, people called them “electronic brains” and the next step was to associate the transistor to the neurone. Physiologists told that a neurone works like a switch, upon reception of signals got excited and the “fired” stimulating other …

Just finished to attend a -very interesting- (virtual) event organised by Siemens Digital Industry Software on “Digital Twins for sustainable, resilient and reconfigurable factory”. Siemens was not the first to adopt Digital Twins (among the big guns the first was probably GE) but it is surely one of the most …