Paul Rogers: Why Cyber Risk Should Be Treated Like an Unlocked Car
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...
View ArticleFull Fathom Five Thy Data Lies: The Digital Ship Has Sailed
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...
View ArticleBig Data is the Big Idea Behind the Brilliant Factory Revolution
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. “Two decades...
View ArticleVideo: Gen. Alexander on Keeping the Industrial Internet Safe
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...
View ArticleStuart Armstrong: Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?
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...
View Article3D Printing the Soul and Other Ideas From the Final Frontier — Q&A with Adam...
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...
View ArticleNo Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines
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...
View Article‘Digital Twin’ Technology Changed Formula 1 and Online Ads. Planes, Trains...
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,...
View ArticleHow Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million...
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...
View ArticleEvery Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart
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...
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