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I bet you had several times your general physician auscultating your body. Using the stethoscope she listen to the variety of sounds generated by your breathing, by the hearth, by the blood circulation and all the others “stuff” we have in our body. Now scientists at NorthWestern University have created …

I am writing this post on the wave of emotion raised by a talk on AI in the (small) city of Voghera, Italy. The event was organized by “Voghera é” a local cultural association and was attended by people that, with very few exceptions, had a view on AI as …

In these last three years I had the pleasure of coordinating the Anitec Assinform AI Working Group. Besides the interaction with several players on the offer side (creating AI based tools, services, products) I got the opportunity of talking to companies from the demand side, the ones that are interested …

Long, long time ago the computer world was a vertical silos. IBM (at that time IBM was a synonym for computer) designed and built their own chips and so did , Univac, Siemens, Bull … (may be these names don’t ring a bell to many of you, by they represented …

The same people that asked for a moratorium on the development of Generative AI for 6 months (March 22nd, 2023) rushed to further develop it and bring more powerful products to the market. At the same time Governments and Regulators in many parts of the world have been busy to …

I already addressed aspects related to the consolidation and diffusion of information in other posts, like here, here, here and here. I was recently asked to answer a set of questions by a publisher on the future of books. Here are the questions and my answers. I welcome your thoughts. …

If you are interesting in an overview on what is going on in the area of brain computer interfaces and the issues this evolving technology is raising take a look at this article on Nature. I already wrote quite a bit in this area and you can take a look …

A Digital Twin is a mirror of an entity. This can be a physical entity or a process, an organisation. The degree of mirroring, depends on the objective. You may want to mirror the functionality and shape of a turbine but the color of the various components are completely irrelevant …

We have seen proto-personal assistants since the turn of the century (do you remember Clippy? It came out with Windows 97 …) and they got better and better (think about Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, MS Copilot, …) but none of this is actually a personal assistant that knows about you …

Drones have come a long way in this last twenty years. From being secret military tools (and weapons) to additional gear for wedding photographers. Their price has plummeted and they have become so widely spread to create a problem in many environment to the point of being forbidden in several …