General Electric, as already mentioned, has been working for several years applying DTs to the energy production, specifically using them to monitor and control wind turbines. Wind farms are costly and complex systems where efficiency can be increased by fine tweaking of the blades angle and this in turns alters …
Read More »One baby – one genome
The cost of genome sequencing has plummeted and it is now reasonable to imagine that every new born child can get her genome sequenced at birth. Actually, it is not even about imagining it: it is time to do this. In UK the Government owned company Genomics England was set …
Read More »What’s the prognosis? Ask AI.
Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina have developed and tested an AI system, based on deep convolutional neural network -dCNN-, on real patients hospitalised with Covid. The system used lung CT scan to rank patients on a severity scale predicting hospitalisation time, the likelihood of deterioration leading to …
Read More »MXene: the marvel of alloys
There are 92 elements in the periodic table (118 if you want to include the artificial ones) and they can be combines in gazillions of ways, not just in terms of placing two or more different atoms together, also by placing them in different 3D structures. Each of the resulting …
Read More »Technology Predictions 2022: Digital Twins in Manufacturing
Digital Twins role and use in Manufacturing is nothing new. Their application is growing steadily as the whole ecosystem expands: more supporting tools (platforms and specific applications), more data available (for modelling and shadowing) and more ways of leveraging on them (in the various product life cycle phases). Hence it …
Read More »Technology Predictions 2022: Health, Safety and Wearable Biomedical Technologies
The increase in sensing capabilities and the pervasive diffusion of sensors are creating more and more data. In turns, AI (in all its forms, including Machine Learning) is showing that we can leverage on those data to extract meaning that is becoming more and more valuable. Hence, the trend towards …
Read More »Technology Predictions 2022: Artificial Intelligence
The first 2022 Technology Prediction by the IEEE Computer Society focuses on Data Centric – AI. Let’s make this clear. Whilst the early approach to AI were focussing on processes-algorithms that could lead to intelligence, in the last 20 years data have grown in importance being recognised on the one …
Read More »2025 Outlook: AI is starting to impact the bottom line – I
On November 5th I will be presenting the outcome of discussions with several CEO/CTO/CIO that took place over the last 4 months as part of the FDC Industry Advisory Board -IAB- activity. In this blog series I will point out the main points soliciting your comments. The broad, and increasing, availability …
Read More »AI: a game changer in Pharma
Quris is an Israeli company (it is also based in Boston, US) betting that Artificial Intelligence can help to dramatically shorten the time to move drugs to clinical stage. Most drugs fail the clinical trials (up to 89% fail, according to Quris): if we think that the overall cost is …
Read More »Will it rain on my backyard?
In spite of jokes on weather forecast we have to acknowledge the tremendous progress that have been made over the last 20 years, thanks to a pervasive network of sensors (both on the ground and up in the sky) and the increased processing crunching capabilities, leveraging on machine learning and …
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