The White Paper being prepared by the Digital Reality Initiative is fundamentally about the fading boundary between reality and digital reality, actually it is about the emergence of Reality resulting from the co-presence of these two realities. These two manifest themselves in the creation of digital worlds like images that are …
Read More »Present and Future of Communications
The new IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee Newsletter is out and you can read it here. It contains a number of very interesting technical articles and a short, candid, interview I gave on the present and future of communications. Whilst the articles may need a bit of technical savvy to be …
Read More »Technology Predictions for 2020
Every year Dejan Milojicic, a well known IEEE volunteer , former president of the Computer Society and Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, try to herd a clowder of cats (technologic cats) to come up with predictions on what technologies will set a mark on the coming year. The result …
Read More »From Digital Reality to Reality – I
It is now over 25 centuries that philosophers have been discussing about the meaning of reality, someone stating that there is not such a thing as reality, since what is now was not what it was a moment ago and it will no longer be a blink of an eye …
Read More »Digital Transformation vs Continuous Education II
Over the centuries humankind has managed to increase the global knowledge and found ways to pass this growing knowledge from a generation to the next one. Knowledge, for most part of human history, was generated locally by very few people and used locally. It took centuries for knowledge to move …
Read More »AI helps in knowing what you know, and what you should know!
When you were a small child attending school, and as you grew attending college, your teachers knew what you … knew as well as what you needed to learn to further your knowledge. It was no magic, of course. By seeing you all day long, listening to your questions, looking …
Read More »2019 Tech Trends III
Following on the previous posts on 2019 top tech trends let’s look at the 3 technologies that are expected to continue having a growing impact in 2019 but whose massive uptake is expected in the next decade: Digital Twins -These are software representations of assets and processes to understand, predict, and …
Read More »2019 Tech Trends II
Following on yesterday’s post on 2019 top tech trends let’s look at the remaining 5 technologies that are expected to have broad dissemination and high impact in 2019: Active security protection – the person that invented the ship also invented the shipwreck and the castaway. This is a truth that applies …
Read More »2019 Tech Trends
The outline of 2019 top tech trends by Computer Society is out and this is the list of technologies that are expected to have broad dissemination and high impact in 2019: Deep Learning Accelerators – deep learning has reached maturity in terms of adoption, although we can expect much more …
Read More »Education challenges up North are not unique
I was part in the last two days of the IEEE presence at ArticNet, the major annual event looking at different facets of life and environment in artic regions (of Canada, although the issues are common to all artic regions). The artic region of Canada is a vast spread of …
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