As stated in my previous article, I want to show next where AI is taking us in the future. However, I need to describe first how AI has evolved during its short life. I have written three articles that develop this theme. In this first article, I briefly outline the …
By 2050, the world’s population will reach almost 10 billion. This fact presents an unprecedented challenge that shifts the responsibility to cities, as the UN estimates that 67% of the world’s inhabitants will live in urban areas. The economic, demographic, social and environmental challenges will likely be tackled with one …
In 1886, the German physicist Heinrich Hertz first demonstrated the existence of radio waves, which in honor of him are also called Hertzian waves. His purpose was to test the electromagnetic theory proposed a couple of decades earlier by James Clerk Maxwell. The curious thing is that when his students …
The real world isn’t like the online world. In the real world, you only have to worry about the criminals who live in your city. But in the online world, you have to worry about criminals who could be on the other side of the planet. Online crime is always …
The past 28th to 30th of September 2014 a very interesting congress on new human reproduction technologies took place in Alicante, organized by the IVF-SPAIN Foundation and Merck Serono. A new generation of technologies is disrupting human reproduction. If by now biomedical and embryo lab technologies were the main drivers, now information …
Internet and the new technologies have changed the way we think, and they have also become a new source of business by themselves, which opens many possibilities and scenarios (future and present) for the economic activity too. The business revolution is already happening. However, what kind of indicators exist to …
3D printing is already turning into a classic lure at technology fairs. Manufacturers work hard to perfect and lower the price on these devices, which they then try to sell to the final consumer by appealing to their interests (such as handicrafts and model making) or to their hearts (creating …
Tech giants have commited themselves to making 2015 the year of wearable technology. During the first few months of this year, they’ve been introducing a wide array of wearable devices, such as smartwatches and smartbands. Most of these innovative devices have one thing in common: they try to seduce consumers …
Can Machines Think? Alan Turing asked himself the same question over six decades ago in his famous article entitled “Computing machinery and intelligence” (1950). His answer was to come up with what is today known as the Turing test, although in his day he called it “The Imitation Game” – a name that’s now familiar …
Deep learning is an emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI). A subcategory of machine learning, deep learning deals with the use of neural networks to improve things like speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. It’s quickly becoming one of the most sought-after fields in computer science. In the …
