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How do you get ready for 2030? You've got to start now: How simulation is changing and what you need to do to keep up

You've got to start now: How simulation is changing and what you need to do to keep up 5-minute read Monica Schnitger - August 29th 2022 In the webinar ‘The Changing World of Simulation’ Monica Schnitger, founder, president, and principal analyst at Schnitger Corporation gives us the lay of the land in terms of where we are in the world of simulation and where it looks like we’re headed.

Business BenefitsCloud ComputingDigital TwinsFuture of Simulation

29 August 2022

Developing Efficient Structural Concepts for the Future of Mobility

5-minute read Sinothile Baloyi - October 20th 2022 The automotive and aerospace industries are undergoing huge changes brought on by the urgent demand for action towards reducing humanity’s carbon footprint. For the automotive industry in particular, there is an additional pressure to evolve the driver’s role, to liberate them from the reins, as it were. Not only will this allow the driver

AerospaceAutomotiveDataFuture of SimulationSimulation DataSustainability

20 October 2022

How Much Can We Really Trust Artificial Intelligence?

4-minute read Sinothile Baloyi - November 10th 2022 In August 2021 Wired magazine published an article about a study that discovered that a neural network trained to read x-ray scans was also predicting subject patients’ racial identity, a non-biological category. The most interesting —and concerning— thing about this discovery was that no one could explain why the algorithms were able to

Artificial IntelligenceFuture of SimulationMachine LearningSimulation Governance

10 November 2022

What's in a Cookie? Simulation in the Food & Drink Industry

6-minute read Sinothile Baloyi - June 30th 2023 Your favourite packaged cookie. What is it, actually? Let’s just focus on the basic ingredients of the kind of cookie you might bake yourself. So, probably wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, maybe chocolate, butter, and flavourings. Now let’s think about the physical properties of each ingredient, the things that your cookie is before it’s a

FoodFuture of SimulationsimulationSustainabilityUK

30 June 2023

Modelling and Simulation of Cyber-physical Systems

Modelling and Simulation of Cyber-physical Systems 5-minute read Sinothile Baloyi - February 22nd 2024 In 2006 Dr Helen Gill, then program manager of the United States National Science Foundation (USNSF) coined the term Cyber-physical Systems . Before that, we had Cybernetics, a term invented by mathematician Norbert Wiener. And before that we had the Greek word kybernan; to steer. So

Cyber-physical SystemsFuture of SimulationIndustry 5.0Validation

22 February 2024