Software obsolescence is probably the most undervalued risk in railway operations, which can become a cyber time-bomb, if unmanaged. It’s a new growing problem that Railway and Public Transit Operators will need to tackle or face the possibility of falling victim of ransomware or lose their compliance. Serge Van Themsche VP of Business Development at…
What are the commonalities between the recent Baltimore’s “RobbinHood” and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency “Mamba” malware attacks? Besides both crippling the activities of two Public Authorities, each event involved a ransomware. What about similarities between Deutsch Bahn’s station and Lodz city tramway attacks? Not much, besides targeting railways. In the first case, the WannaCry…
Failing to use a better analogy, various scientists and philosophers compare the brain to a computer. Maybe you object to that view and believe that it’s more than that? What I’ll now show you are insights coming from my book and based on the latest neuroscience studies,1 which will help you make up your idea…
While writing “What’s on their mind? Biological and Artificial Intelligence,” I came across many interesting philosophical works that gave me a better comprehension of epistemology, that is, the theory of knowledge (learn more about this here). The following five books were the ones that prove to be the most useful for me to understand the…
What is Artificial Knowledge (AK)? The best way of describing AK is first to understand what knowledge is. We all know intuitively what we would classify as such, but experience problems whenever trying to define it. Historical battles or cultural movements would be considered knowledge, but what about news of Lady Gaga’s meat dress or…
Harness the power of the IoT revolution with AI By 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to grow in a market of more than US$1.29 billion1, connecting more than 30.7 billion2 objects and producing around 500 Zettabytes of data3. No top manager can ignore how this technology will redefine the product design, manufacturing, sales,…
What’s on their mind? There isn’t a week that passes by without information on AI making the headlines of the major newspapers or magazines. You don’t need to be a computer specialist to realize that something big is happening, changing profoundly the computer world and with it, the society in which we live. The business…
How to make unmanned cars much more intelligent? If you are reading this article, it’s probably that you wonder why to associate intelligence with unmanned cars? After all, it’s only codes that programmers from Google, Tesla or Uber or smaller start-up wrote. Furthermore, and even if it were possible to make cars more intelligent,…
Will Electric Driverless Cars Kill Bus And Light Train Operations? Private transport is associated with conventional cars. Cars pollute, run empty during peak hours, stay idle 95% of the time and are privately owned. Fifteen years from now, the first driverless cars will start hitting the road in large numbers. By then most cars…
Analysing Uber’s market moves – and how it intends to disrupt transport markets I am pretty sure that Uber’s announcements over the past couple of years around building a centre of expertise in driverless vehicles did not come as a surprise to anybody interested in these technologies. Though Uber hasn’t clearly mentioned why it would…