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Artificial Intelligence has been expanding rapidly entering in more and more sector. As we marvel at the progress concerns are also voiced on trustworthiness of AI in general and its application in specific, sensitive, domain. The issue is bound to increase as AI becomes more performant (read autonomous) and widespread. …

The first 2022 Technology Prediction by the IEEE Computer Society focuses on Data Centric – AI. Let’s make this clear. Whilst the early approach to AI were focussing on processes-algorithms that could lead to intelligence, in the last 20 years data have grown in importance being recognised on the one …

As in the previous years the IEEE Computer Society has published a set of predictions on Technologies that are expected to make a significant impact in the coming few years (short term). These technologies have been chosen by a team of IEEE volunteers that first proposed a broader set and …

How would you call a railway where the rails are replaced by paint? Probably not “paintways” but that’s the best I was able to come up to get your attention… 4 years ago CRRC, a Chinese company manufacturing trains and trams came up with the idea of replacing the rail …

I had the opportunity, few days ago, to attend a talk in the framework of IEEE 2050, on the evolution of scientific publishing. Having a peak into what/how people will be publishing and what/how people will access the published content some 30 years from now is really challenging. Hence the …

I started my career as a programmer, assembler was the rule of the game. Actually, for some time I also had to write in Zeroes and Ones, machine code. This is not a statement about how good I was, it is a statement about how old I am! Over the …

What could be easier than picking up a strawberry, an egg, a blueberry? we do this kind of things many times a day without a second thought. As a matter of fact there is quite a lot going on behind the scene of our perception. Our eyes pick up the …

On December 9th, 2021, a flaw in a software library, Log4J, was discovered. This flaw was present, at that time, in over 100 million systems all over the world. On December 10th the  flaw was exploited by some hackers and within 3 days it had affected at least 830,000 systems. …

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong start up, has announced the start of the first clinical trial of a drug “discovered” using AI. The company had made the news two years ago when they released their GENTRL AI system as open source software to stimulate the search for drugs using artificial …

On December 23rd, 2021, Abu Dhabi has become the first city with a commercial autonomous taxi service, TxAI, that is Taxi driven by AI. The trial started few months ago and now it is no longer a trial (offering free rides to suspicious but daring customers) but a regular service …