SOME BASIC DIGITAL TWINNING CONCEPTS Digital twinning has been identified by Gartner as one of 2019’s top 10 strategic technology trends. It has plenty of applications: HAZOP & virtual commissioning: studies of probability and risks Production monitoring and optimization Predictive…
On the morning of 4 November rumors began to run about a ransomware attack that had hit several Spanish firms. It seemed to be a case of déjà vu at first; only a couple of years previously, after…
“Software is Eating the World”. This attention-grabbing phrase was the central theme of an article by Marc Andreessen in the Wall Street Journal back in 2011. And its argument still rings true today: most of the world’s most powerful firms…
Some of the main media (e.g. Financial Times or NASA’s website) recently ran a report that, prima facie, might seem ominous or menacing: “Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy”. What does it mean to have achieved ‘quantum supremacy’? The…
The Galileo system guarantees optimum fleet management. This constellation of satellites, developed in Europe, offers an unprecedented geopositioning system. Nearly 30 satellites provide a positioning service boasting a margin of error of less than one meter. How will this system…