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minds-machines

Every Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart

Tomas Kellner
October 13, 2015
Like an industrial cathedral, a power plant can be a placed filled with a special kind of serenity. Walk into the pump room that feeds high-pressure steam into turbines that make electricity and you can see sun dancing on aluminum ducts while the pumps hum to the tune of 800 horsepower.
But on this day, all is not as it seems. Sure, technicians move around purposefully, performing their normal tasks. Valves open in the right sequence like pipes on an organ. Even trained eyes can’t see anything amiss. But back in the control room, a warning box pops up on the plant operator's screen.
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minds-machines

How Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million on Fuel

October 05, 2015
Map out one million flight plans each year for Southwest Airlines. Everything from planeloads of chilly Chicagoans heading for vacations in Cancun to budget-minded businesspeople dashing from Los Angeles to New York. It’s difficult. Now try toting up the countless variables on each one of those flights, such as the air’s humidity and the fuel load on each leg, in hopes of accurately calculating their impact on the bottom line.
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minds-machines

‘Digital Twin’ Technology Changed Formula 1 and Online Ads. Planes, Trains and Power Are Next

October 04, 2015
When did shopping online become more like driving a 200-mile-per-hour racecar? Quite recently, thanks to something called “digital twin” technology. Now it’s going to change railroads, airlines, factories and the rest of the business world.
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minds-machines

No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines

October 03, 2015
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even individual parts a digital “birth certificate,” track them through their lifetime, and make sure that the information is properly recorded. “It will give us the digital story of a part’s life from birth to death,” says Dave Bartlett, chief technology officer of GE Aviation. “This has never existed before at this level. Previously, records were disjointed and … very hard to pull together.”
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artificial-intelligence

Stuart Armstrong: Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?

Dr Stuart Armstrong James Martin Research Fellow At The Future Of Humanity Institute Oxford University
October 02, 2015

Unless we have clear evidence that artificially intelligent beings we create pose no threat, we need to seriously consider the risk.

 

Will a Democrat or a Republican win the 2040 U.S. election? Will Google be remembered positively or negatively in 2090? Will humans create new universes by 3002?
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space

3D Printing the Soul and Other Ideas From the Final Frontier — Q&A with Adam Steltzner of NASA

Adam Steltzner Fellow At The Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 02, 2015

The Industrial Internet faces perhaps it’s biggest challenge in space — though also some of the greatest opportunities for breakthroughs in machine-to-machine communication and Big Data analytics.

The explosion of data being emitted from everything from hospital monitors to deep-sea oil wells to jet engines is demanding increasingly robust Big Data analytical tools. But perhaps the greatest test for collecting and analyzing data is at the “final frontier,” with the challenges of beaming back information and images from space expeditions.
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minds-machines

Video: Gen. Alexander on Keeping the Industrial Internet Safe

October 01, 2015
You may remember four-star General Keith Alexander as the first head of the United States Cyber Command. Now, in the private sector, he’s helping industrial companies protect themselves against hackers. He says that as the number of connected machines and devices grows, so will the potential lines of attack. He sees the vulnerabilities not so much on the enterprise side, but in connected industrial operations – one of fastest growing segments of the Industrial Internet.
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Big Data is the Big Idea Behind the Brilliant Factory Revolution

October 01, 2015
When Christine Furstoss joined GE 26 years ago, she was a hands-on materials scientist who made new turbine parts. She remembers it as a painstaking, arduous and often frustrating process.
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minds-machines

Full Fathom Five Thy Data Lies: The Digital Ship Has Sailed

Tomas Kellner
September 30, 2015
From fathoms, sails and knots, our modern maritime language still bears the fingerprints of past ages when sea captains relied on “dipseys” to measure off the depth of water in six-foot units called fathoms, wind to move and “log lines” with knots tied at specific intervals to determine speed.
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Perspectives

Paul Rogers: Why Cyber Risk Should Be Treated Like an Unlocked Car

Paul Rogers President And Ceo Of Wurldtech
September 30, 2015

Instead of trying to guess the risk of cyber attacks, companies should view their industrial assets like an unlocked car — and simply focus on stopping attacks from occurring in the first place.

 

Part of my job is to evangelize the need for cyber security solutions to protect industrial control systems (ICS). In many instances, when I meet with executives from companies who own or operate industrial technology, they are already aware that their control systems are at risk from cyber attacks.
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