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A few figures on Digital Transformation – I

The Digital Transformation, DX, has been the talk of the town for the last 5 years, now it has been supplanted by artificial intelligence. However it has not disappeared, actually is becoming pervasive (and AI and the leverage on data are just providing even more steam). To get the pulse …

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Chatting with a Book …

The progress of Artificial Intelligence, as I pointed out in previous posts, has taken the shape of an avalanche, not so much  in its performances (increase of “intelligence”) but in terms of usefulness as measured by its increased application in many (all?) areas. The fact is that today we have …

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Shrinking the LHC 54 million times

The LHC, Large Hadron Collider, is one of the largest system ever built. A 27 km ring for accelerating particles to speed close to the speed of light and gaining energy that compares to the ones scientists assume where present in the first phases of this universe (the so called …

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AI in Action

Yesterday, October 31st, Anitec Assinform, the Italian Association of IT Industries in Italy held an event in Milan at MADE (the centre for Industry 4.0, an impressive hands-on lab supporting industrial innovation) to discuss the status of AI in Italy as seen from the Industry. The occasion was the presentation …

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Generative AI affects jobs at all education level

A recent report by McKinsey on Generative AI and the Future of Work points out, as shown in the graphic, how Generative AI is affecting, although to various degrees, all technical professions independently of the level of education involved. If we look at the past, automation has affected mostly workers …

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The Industrial Metaverse is here to stay – IV

Making a digital twin visible is not a piece of cake. Although computer graphics has made enormous progress as we can see in gaming, at industry level, differently from a Consumer Metaverse, the rendering of the Digital Twin should convey a very precise meaning and has to be contextualised both …

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The Industrial Metaverse is here to stay – III

Digital Transformation is not about having data representing a physical asset. It is about exploiting those data as if you were exploiting a physical asset. This means flanking the data with execution capabilities to have them become alive. This is usually done using Digital Twins. Again, this is becoming a …

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Will our cities morph into a CityVerse?

The IEEE Future Direction Committee Metaverse Initiative is now reaching the end of the first year and it is time to present a few of the ideas that have been matured in these months. The Metaverse can be seen, and most importantly implemented and used, in different ways. I have …

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