The document discusses several emerging technologies including Autodesk developing CAD software for 3D tissue modeling, creating new materials by recipe, and an air data glove that allows writing in air. It also mentions upcoming smartphone advances like wireless charging standards, flexible displays, and fast growing Asian markets. Additionally, it briefly mentions potential discoveries or applications such as two types of Higgs bosons, generating electricity from tornadoes, over 500 phases of matter, quantum spin liquids, and using focused sound beams as a scalpel.
Empowering local forest communities by using AI and Blockchain TechnologyJaclyn Rooker
As a product for the #Odyssey hackathon we have developed a forest change AI prediction model for Borneo combined with a blockchain application for a transparent and fair value chain of forest products and services
Brookings Research reports that the Internet of Things (IoT) market will hit the $20 billion mark by 2020. The Internet of Things will give consumers the opportunity to remotely control objects and finally be able to build automated homes, also known as smart homes.
Empowering local forest communities by using AI and Blockchain TechnologyJaclyn Rooker
As a product for the #Odyssey hackathon we have developed a forest change AI prediction model for Borneo combined with a blockchain application for a transparent and fair value chain of forest products and services
Brookings Research reports that the Internet of Things (IoT) market will hit the $20 billion mark by 2020. The Internet of Things will give consumers the opportunity to remotely control objects and finally be able to build automated homes, also known as smart homes.
What is the Digital Twin?
Digital twin is the ability to make a virtual representation of the physical elements and the dynamics of how an Internet of Things device operates and works. It's more than a blueprint, it's more than a schematic. It's not just a picture. It's a lot more than a pair of ‘virtual reality’ glasses. It's a virtual representation of both the elements and the dynamics of how an Internet of Things device responds throughout its lifecycle. It can be a jet engine, a building, process on factory floor, and much, much more.
Watch the video introduction of this keynote presentation from Genius of Things Summit in Munich https://youtu.be/RaOejcczPas
Fog computing or fog networking, also known as fogging, is an architecture that uses edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of computation, storage, and communication locally and routed over the internet backbone.
Creativity: the human tool in the age of intelligent machines Roberto Siagri
Digitization and technology is demanding more creativity.
In the Age of Software Defined Machines and Big Data human creativity is becoming one of the most important skill. Presentation for the 7th Italian-Slovenian Forum in Lublijana
I gave this talk at the 'Digital Twin Conference' hosted by LH Corp at COEX, Seoul on August 8th, 2019.
Abstract: 'Digital Twin' is a digital replication of real world objects, processes, phenomena that can be used for various purposes. Digital twin concept backs to manufacturing industry in early 2000s for the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) purposes. It is based on the idea that a digital informational construct about a physical system could be created as an entity on its own. Definitions of digital twin emphasize the three important levels or characteristics. At first, there should be connection between real physical world and corresponding virtual world. To do this, Level 1 digital twin provides virtual 3D models. Secondly, this connection between real world and virtual world is established by generating (near) real time data using sensors or IoT. This is called Level 2 digital twin. Thirdly, Level 3 digital twin carries out certain analyses, predictions, and simulations using virtual 3D and (near) real time data. ‘Smart Spaces’ are interactive environments where humans and technology can openly communicate with each other in a physical or digital setting. Examples of smart spaces include smart cities, smart factories, and smart homes. ‘Smart Spaces’ is one of Garner’s Top 10 Tech Trends for 2019. As spaces are going through digital transformation with 4th industrial revolution, there are many attempts to apply digital twin technology to manage urban, spatial, and industrial issues around the world. Those attempts look set to play an increasingly important role in the creation of smart cities, smart factories, and smart homes. Bringing the virtual and real worlds together in this way can help to give better analysis, visualization, and simulation to the decision-making process. This will be a multi-way process with iterative feedback among stakeholders.
In this talk, I'll share my real experiences in carrying out digital twin and smart space projects. Also I’ll talk about what I’ve learnt from these projects.
Nurturing Digital Twins: How to Build Virtual Instances of Physical Assets to...Cognizant
To embark on the digital twin jounrey, assess your readiness, define and communicate a vision, set common data management rules and build in flexibility for intelligence.
2 nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and IOT (CCCIOT 2021)ijcseit
2
nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and IOT (CCCIOT 2021) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of
Cloud computing and IoT. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and
practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in
the field.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research
results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the
areas of Cloud computing and Internet of Things.
What is the Digital Twin?
Digital twin is the ability to make a virtual representation of the physical elements and the dynamics of how an Internet of Things device operates and works. It's more than a blueprint, it's more than a schematic. It's not just a picture. It's a lot more than a pair of ‘virtual reality’ glasses. It's a virtual representation of both the elements and the dynamics of how an Internet of Things device responds throughout its lifecycle. It can be a jet engine, a building, process on factory floor, and much, much more.
Watch the video introduction of this keynote presentation from Genius of Things Summit in Munich https://youtu.be/RaOejcczPas
Fog computing or fog networking, also known as fogging, is an architecture that uses edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of computation, storage, and communication locally and routed over the internet backbone.
Creativity: the human tool in the age of intelligent machines Roberto Siagri
Digitization and technology is demanding more creativity.
In the Age of Software Defined Machines and Big Data human creativity is becoming one of the most important skill. Presentation for the 7th Italian-Slovenian Forum in Lublijana
I gave this talk at the 'Digital Twin Conference' hosted by LH Corp at COEX, Seoul on August 8th, 2019.
Abstract: 'Digital Twin' is a digital replication of real world objects, processes, phenomena that can be used for various purposes. Digital twin concept backs to manufacturing industry in early 2000s for the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) purposes. It is based on the idea that a digital informational construct about a physical system could be created as an entity on its own. Definitions of digital twin emphasize the three important levels or characteristics. At first, there should be connection between real physical world and corresponding virtual world. To do this, Level 1 digital twin provides virtual 3D models. Secondly, this connection between real world and virtual world is established by generating (near) real time data using sensors or IoT. This is called Level 2 digital twin. Thirdly, Level 3 digital twin carries out certain analyses, predictions, and simulations using virtual 3D and (near) real time data. ‘Smart Spaces’ are interactive environments where humans and technology can openly communicate with each other in a physical or digital setting. Examples of smart spaces include smart cities, smart factories, and smart homes. ‘Smart Spaces’ is one of Garner’s Top 10 Tech Trends for 2019. As spaces are going through digital transformation with 4th industrial revolution, there are many attempts to apply digital twin technology to manage urban, spatial, and industrial issues around the world. Those attempts look set to play an increasingly important role in the creation of smart cities, smart factories, and smart homes. Bringing the virtual and real worlds together in this way can help to give better analysis, visualization, and simulation to the decision-making process. This will be a multi-way process with iterative feedback among stakeholders.
In this talk, I'll share my real experiences in carrying out digital twin and smart space projects. Also I’ll talk about what I’ve learnt from these projects.
Nurturing Digital Twins: How to Build Virtual Instances of Physical Assets to...Cognizant
To embark on the digital twin jounrey, assess your readiness, define and communicate a vision, set common data management rules and build in flexibility for intelligence.
2 nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and IOT (CCCIOT 2021)ijcseit
2
nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and IOT (CCCIOT 2021) will provide an excellent
international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of
Cloud computing and IoT. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and
practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in
the field.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research
results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the
areas of Cloud computing and Internet of Things.
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/12/autodesk-3-d-print-tissue/Autodesk, the industry leader in CAD software, has announced it is partnering with biological printer manufacturer Organovo to create 3-D design software for designing and printing living tissue.It’s an area of interest to Autodesk, whose software runs the industrial design and architecture worlds, allowing them to expand further into new fields by helping researchers interface with new tools.Organovo’sbioplotter, one of the only machines that can shape living tissue, works like a standard desktop 3-D printers but uses living cells instead of ABS plastic. It creates tissue by printing a gel base material as a scaffold and then deposits cells which mature into living material that can be used in the process of developing new pharmaceuticals.
http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/physicists-research-creates-recipe-book-new-materialsBy showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.The findings show that researchers can create a "recipe book" to build new materials of sorts using topology, a major mathematical field that describes the properties that do not change when an object is stretched, bent or otherwise “continuously deformed.” Published online Dec. 23 in the journal Nature, the study also is the first to experimentally show that some of the most important topological theorems hold up in the real material world, said CU-Boulder physics department Assistant Professor Ivan Smalyukh, a study senior author.The research could lead to upgrades in liquid crystal displays, like those used in laptops and television screens, to allow them to interact with light in new and different ways. One possibility is to create liquid crystal displays that are even more energy efficient, Smalyukh said, extending the battery life for the devices they’re attached to.
Well, the prototype won’t win any beauty contest.“Abstract—We present an input method which enables complex hands-free interaction through 3d handwriting recognition. Users can write text in the air as if they were usingan imaginary blackboard. Motion sensing is done wirelesslyby accelerometers and gyroscopes which are attached tothe back of the hand. “We propose a two-stage approachfor spotting and recognition of handwriting gestures. Thespotting stage uses a Support Vector Machine to identifydata segments which contain handwriting. The recognitionstage uses Hidden Markov Models (HMM) to generate thetext representation from the motion sensor data. Individualcharacters are modeled by HMMs and concatenated to wordmodels. Our system can continuously recognize arbitrarysentences, based on a freely definable vocabulary with over8000 words.”
Google’s upcoming Nexus 4 has Qi based charging built in.Apple has patents in this area also.
Researchers at the Atlas experiment finally updated the two-photon results. Observation and study of the Higgs boson candidate in the two photon decay channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.What they seem to have found is bizarre—so bizarre, in fact, that physicists assume something must be wrong with it. Instead of one clean peak in the data, they have found two an additional peak. There seems to be a Higgs boson with a mass of 123.5 GeV (gigaelectron volts, the measuring unit that particle physicists most often use for mass), and another Higgs boson at 126.6 GeV—a statistically significant difference of nearly 3 GeV. Apparently, the Atlas scientists have spent the past month trying to figure out if they could be making a mistake in the data analysis but they have found no mistake.http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/12/two-different-higgs-bosons-may-have.html
Peter Thiel has funded a project.. To generate electricity from a tornado. I am pretty sure they intend to produce their own vortexes rather than drawing power form Dorothy’s trip to Oz.https://www.breakoutlabs.org/news-events/news-event-item/article/power-a-city-with-tornados-latest-grants-announced-by-thiel-foundations-breakout-labs-includes-an.htmlCanadian company, AVEtec, plans proof-of-concept test to extract energy from a man-made, controlled tornadoSan Francisco - December 13, 2012 - The Thiel Foundation announced today three new grants awarded through Breakout Labs, its revolutionary revolving fund to promote innovation in science and technology. The most recent award takes the program into clean energy, with a bold new proposal to harness the power of atmospheric vortexes.AVEtec is the brainchild of Canadian engineer, Louis Michaud. His Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE) harnesses the physics of tornados to produce extremely cheap and clean energy. In his design, warm or humid air is introduced into a circular station, where it takes the form of a rising vortex, i.e. a controlled tornado. The temperature difference between this heated air and the atmosphere above it supports the vortex and drives multiple turbines. The vortex can be shut down at any time by turning off the source of warm air.Among its advantages over other sources of energy, AVE power generation neither produces carbon emissions nor needs energy storage. AVEtec projects that the cost of the energy it generates could be as low as 3 cents per kilowatt hour, making it one of the least expensive forms of energy production. An AVE power station could have a diameter of 100 meters and generate 200 megawatts of electrical power, the same order of magnitude as conventional coal power stations."The power in a tornado is undisputed," said Louis Michaud. "My work has established the principles by which we can control and exploit that power to provide clean energy on an unprecedented scale. With the funding from Breakout Labs, we are building a prototype in partnership with Lambton College to demonstrate the feasibility and the safety of the atmospheric vortex engine."
The vortex energy can be from an existing relative low intensity heat source like an existing power plant. Can increase overall energy produced by up to 25%.What is the net impact of an AVE on global warming? The vortex engine can help to alleviate global warming in several ways.1. The vortex engine increases the quantity of electrical energy produced by thermal power plants without increasing fuel consumption thereby permitting a reduction in the quantity of fuel required to meet human power needs.2. A vortex engine causes upward heat convection in the troposphere to take place slightly earlier than it would without vortex assistance thereby reducing the temperature at the bottom of the atmosphere. The vortex moves the heat higher up in the atmosphere permitting it to be radiated to space with less interference from greenhouse gases.3. A vortex engine whose heat source is either warm sea water or warm humid air produces power without requiring the combustion of fuel except for startup.
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/OrderParameters/Intro.htmlCondensed matter physics – the branch of physics responsible for discovering and describing most of these phases – has traditionally classified phases by the way their fundamental building blocks – usually atoms – are arranged. The key is something called symmetry.Using modern mathematics – specifically group cohomology theory and group super-cohomology theory – the researchers have constructed and classified the symmetry-protected phases in any number of dimensions and for any symmetries. Their new classification system will provide insight about these quantum phases of matter, which may in turn increase our ability to design states of matter for use in superconductors or quantum computers. Examples of symmetry-protected phases include some topological superconductors and topological insulators, which are of widespread immediate interest because they show promise for use in the coming first generation of quantum electronics.Classifying the phases of matter by describing their symmetries and where and how those symmetries break is known as the Landau paradigm. More than simply a way of arranging the phases of matter into a chart, Landau’s theory is a powerful tool which both guides scientists in discovering new phases of matter and helps them grapple with the behaviours of the known phases. Physicists were so pleased with Landau’s theory that for a long time they believed that all phases of matter could be described by symmetries. That’s why it was an eye-opening experience when they discovered a handful of phases that Landau couldn’t describe.New states contain a new kind of order: topological order. Topological order is a quantum mechanical phenomenon: it is not related to the symmetry of the ground state, but instead to the global properties of the ground state’s wave function. Therefore, it transcends the Landau paradigm, which is based on classical physics concepts.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/advancednano/~3/1FKd-8Nl1yE/500-phases-of-matter-have-been-defined.html
Remember those nice interactive displays that Iron Man had? Well.. Enter the Z-Space display.http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508991/a-display-that-makes-interactive-3-d-seem-mind-bogglingly-real/Imagine being able to reach out and grab some of the 3-D objects you saw in the movie Avatar with your own hands. I recently tried a computer display that offers this sort of interactive experience—albeit on a smaller scale—and I think the technique could have many possible uses.The “Z Space” display, developed by Californian company Infinite Z, tracks a user’s eye and hand movements and adjusts the 3-D image that he or she sees in real-time. The resulting effect is stunning. Unlike the 3-D video seen in a movie theater or on a 3-D TV, you can move your head around an object—to look it from the side or from below, for instance—and the Z Space display will adapt and show you the correct perspective. You still need to wear a special pair of glasses in order to see the 3-D images generated by the display. But the glasses have an additional purpose. As well as showing different images for each eye (to create the illusion of depth perception), they have markers that reflect infrared light. This enables cameras embedded in the display to track the movement of your head (and thus your eyes) as you change your point of view. It’s easy to see how such technology could be very useful for designers, architects, and animators. But with luck, it could also find its way into a few consumer products. The effect would make for an awesome interactive gaming experience, or simply much more realistic and immersive 3-D video. (Of course, it would only work for one viewer.) But still, just imagine being able to physically propel 3-D angry birds at virtual pigs—way more satifying.Last month Infinite Z created a software development kit (SDK) for its ZSpace displays, which let other companies, as well as independent programmers, create software for it. The display normally costs but $3,995, but if you enroll in the company’s developer program, you can snag one for $1,500.
Magnonics – an extension of SpintronicsMagnonics is an exciting extension of spintronics, promising novel ways of computing and storing magnetic data. What determines a material’s magnetic state is how electron spins are arranged (not everyday spin, but quantized angular momentum). If most of the spins point in the same direction, the material is ferromagnetic, like a refrigerator magnet. If half the spins point one way and half the opposite, the material is antiferromagnetic, with no everyday magnetism.There are other kinds of magnetism. In materials where the electrons are “itinerant” – moving rapidly through the crystal lattice like a gas, so that their spins become strongly coupled to their motions – certain crystalline structures can cause the spins to precess collectively to the right or left in a helix, producing a state called helimagnetism.Helimagnetism most often occurs at low temperature; increasing the heat collectively excites the spin structure and eventually destroys the order, relaxing the magnetism. In quantum calculations, such collective excitations are treated like particles (“quasiparticles”); excitations that disrupt magnetism are called magnons, or spin waves. There is a well developed theory of helimagnons, yet little is known experimentally about how helimagnetism forms or relaxes on time scales of less than a trillionth of a second, the scale on which magnetic interactions actually occur.http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2012/12/17/helimagnetism/http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v109/i24/e247204
MIT physicists grew this pure crystal of herbertsmithite in their laboratory. This sample, which took 10 months to grow, is 7 mm long (just over a quarter-inch) and weighs 0.2 grams. Image: Tianheng Hanhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-researchers-discover-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-1219.htmlMIT researchers have demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior, adding to the two previously known states of magnetism.Ferromagnetism — the simple magnetism of a bar magnet or compass needle — has been known for centuries. In a second type of magnetism, antiferromagnetism, the magnetic fields of the ions within a metal or alloy cancel each other out. In both cases, the materials become magnetic only when cooled below a certain critical temperature. The Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) is a solid crystal, but its magnetic state is described as liquid: Unlike the other two kinds of magnetism, the magnetic orientations of the individual particles within it fluctuate constantly, resembling the constant motion of molecules within a true liquid.
A carbon-nanotube-coated lens that converts light to sound can focus high-pressure sound waves to finer points than ever before. Researchers say it could lead to an invisible knife for noninvasive surgery.Today focused sound waves blast apart kidney stones and prostate tumors. The tools work primarily by focusing sound waves tightly enough to generate heat."A major drawback of current strongly focused ultrasound technology is a bulky focal spot, which is on the order of several millimeters," Baac said. "A few centimeters is typical. Therefore, it can be difficult to treat tissue objects in a high-precision manner, for targeting delicate vasculature, thin tissue layer and cellular texture. We can enhance the focal accuracy 100-fold."The team was able to concentrate high-amplitude sound waves to a speck just 75 by 400 micrometers (a micrometer is one-thousandth of a millimeter). Their beam can blast and cut with pressure, rather than heat. This picture: With a new technique that uses tightly-focussed sound waves for micro-surgery, University of Michigan engineering researchers drilled a 150-micrometer hole in a confetti-sized artificial kidney stone. Image credit: Hyoung Won Baachttp://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121218/srep00989/full/srep00989.htmlhttp://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21044-super-fine-sound-beam-could-one-day-be-an-invisible-scalpel