Every year Gartner publishes the Emerging Technology Hype-cycle and it is always worth dedicating some time to it. This year on the top of the hype there is “Social Distancing Technologies” and I guess it could have been expected! Looking at Google Trends you see that Social Distancing went from …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – X
Cognitive Digital Twins for humans In a manufacturing workflow humans are (still) playing an important role. Hence modelling the workflow requires modelling the human activity as well. A cognitive digital twin shall take the human role in the workflow as an integral part of the model. At this point the …
Read More »Platforms, present and future I
One of the topic addressed in the Digital Transformation Course developed by EIT Digital and IEEE Future Direction in its Digital Reality Initiative is that of Platforms. In these last few weeks I have been discussing platforms with a number of key people in several industries and now I take …
Read More »From Digital Reality to Reality – III
The new Initiative launched by FDC-IEEE capitalises on the results achieved by the afore mentioned Digital Reality and Symbiotic Autonomous Systems and it is called Digital Reality: Fostering and leveraging the ongoing Digital Transformation. The Digital Transformation is affecting most businesses, many paths of life and is transforming our perception …
Read More »Augmented Machines and Augmented Humans are converging I
Today I am giving a keynote at the 2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, presenting some of the outcomes of the IEEE FDC Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative. Here a summary of the points I am making. =========== We have experienced a significant evolution in …
Read More »Taking the helm and steering the Digital Transformation
The big issue, facing today companies and organisations alike, is how to jump on the Digital Transformation bandwagon without disrupting their ongoing business. Starting from scratch is simply not an option if you have a company. You need to leverage on your company’s assets using them as a springboard. This …
Read More »A worldwide communications fabric, starting right at home and at the office
Over the last 150 years communication infrastructures have become more and more pervasive to the point that most of the time people no longer take notice. One is now becoming aware of a communications infrastructure in those rare situations where … there is no communications infrastructure. The increased processing capabilities, …
Read More »Making sure Digital Reality goes hand in hand with Reality
Over the last 30 years we have become better and better in extracting data from the world around us. Sensors based on a variety of ever better (and cheaper) technologies can detect a variety of real world parameters and more recently data analytics, machine learning and deep neural networks have …
Read More »A Digital Transformation Course
So, the Digital Transformation is already happening. Different industries and different organisations have been involved each one in its own way. Some might even have been spared so far by the wave that is getting wider and bigger. But even those will not be safe for ever. Now, why should …
Read More »A world that is becoming responsive is a world where boundaries are becoming fuzzier
Now Alexa and the likes are making talking to the ambient we live in normal. More than that, actually: they are leading us to expect that it is normal that the ambient answers our questions, execute what we are demanding of it. This is brought forward by advances in speech …
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