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Of the four approaches to Digital Platform for the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, the one based on data is the one convincing me most. The end-to-end approach is nice but probably over ambitious and it does not take into account legacy. The Communication based approach to me is …

After considering the abundance of Digital Platforms for Smart Cities (and the need to converge on a limited subset with my vision of achieving that through the adoption of a semantic layer –more of this in the last part of this discussion) I would like to consider the Digital Transformation …

Let’s now consider Digital Platforms designed for specific application areas, starting with Smart Cities. Just to point out the interest existing in this area a search on Google (on February 11th) returned over 200 million references! At the Smart City Expo World Conference (Nov 2018 in Barcelona) the theme was …

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 …

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 …

At the EIT Digital Italy Innovation day I was asked to share some thoughts on Digital Transformation and its impact on jobs. This is a topic I have been addressing for quite a while and I also socialised here and there on this blog (just search for “jobs loss”). It …

There is no question that the Digital Transformation will kill several jobs as well as create new ones. What is different from the previous waves of transformation that hit humanity in the past is the change in knowledge/skills that will be required. This change is likely to be continuous and …

Now, don’t take me wrong. I don’t mean to say that doing “good” research is easy nor that research is not addressing “tough” issues (actually some are so tough that they might even don’t have a solution!). Innovation is tougher because some aspects that innovators have to face are beyond …

Self driving cars are the talk of the day with more and more articles looking at the time when we can read our newspaper (assuming there will still be a newspaper -paper- to read) as our car drives us to the office. So far self driving cars are a matter …

Yesterday I discovered this nice infographic produced by Drone Industry Insights where you can see the MANY threats in the area of drones. I would have never though there could be so many, even though looking at each single one I have to agree that the threat exists. One of …