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The Rising Digital Tide Is Lifting GE, Industry

Tomas Kellner
June 23, 2016
A brand-new GE factory in Florida is feeding production data into evolutionary algorithms built on Predix — GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet — to essentially apply the principles of natural selection to capacitors and develop better products.
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Private-Public Partnerships in a Connected World

June 17, 2016
The World Economic Forum is a forum for discussing growth, understanding change and influencing the impact it has on our world. With the recent WEF ASEAN event taking place in Kuala Lumpur this month, those ideas were brought to the heart of Malaysia.

Make no mistake, we stand in the shadow of a changing world, with the rise of the fourth industrial revolution. It is a change defined by the synergy of industries, and yet riding on a wave of disruption, where the technological, physical and biological converge and interact.
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Is Innovation Just A Buzzword? We’ve Asked Some Innovation Captains

June 16, 2016
GE recently launched its fifth edition of their Global Innovation Barometer. The Barometer explores how the perception of innovation is changing in a complex, globalized environment, and how markets appreciate the framework for innovation their country has developed.
We spoke to GE Malaysia chief operating officer Azli Mohamed, Agensi Innovasi Malaysia (AIM) corporate sector innovation and strategic impacts projects executive vice president Abdullah Arshad and Google Malaysia head of marketing Jon Day to get their thoughts on innovation.

 
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Full Steam Ahead: This Software Brain For Coal-Fired Power Plants Could Help Eliminate 500 Million Tons Of CO2

Tomas Kellner
June 14, 2016
GE just picked up a head of steam and put it in the cloud.
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New “Digital Foundry” In Paris Expands GE’s Global Software Footprint

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
When Credit Lyonnais built itself a grand new office near the Opera in the center of Paris in the 1870s, it used a piece of the Louvre as a model and commissioned Gustave Eiffel’s atelier to design its soaring glass canopy.
Even today, the building remains a big draw for new generations of engineers. Except this breed doesn’t use steel beams and glass to shape the world. They write software to control machines.
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The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power Plant In Italy’s Industrial Heart

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation and a high-voltage cable from France has created more power supply than the region can absorb. So much so, in fact, the glut took at least one decades-old power plant out of commission in 2013.
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Businesses Can Spur Innovation by Setting the Agenda and Funding More Research

May 26, 2016
KUALA LUMPUR, MAY 25: Business leaders in Malaysia need to take the lead in driving innovation, particularly in setting the agenda and making more funds available for research and development.
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Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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Jurassic Hardware: Steven Spielberg’s Father Was A Computing Pioneer

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2016
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From Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries since its founding 124 years ago. One famous name missing from this list was Spielberg.

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How The Third Wave Of The Internet Is Stoking The Second Machine Age

April 25, 2016
There are few people with better first-hand knowledge of the Internet’s history than AOL founder Steve Case. That’s why we should pay attention when he proclaims we haven’t seen anything yet. “The Third Wave is the era when the Internet stops belonging to Internet companies,” he writes in his new book, The Third Wave.
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