Christina Verena Rentschler

Six Levels of Autonomous Driving and the Role of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning are all terms referring to the performance of tasks normally requiring human intelligence. One of these tasks might still be driving a car, but how long does it take to get to autonomous cars and what kind of approaches in the field of artificial intelligence are already available?… Read more Six Levels of Autonomous Driving and the Role of Artificial Intelligence

The transparent society in the era of Big Data

“Big Data is about much more than just correlating database tables and creating pattern recognition algorithms. It’s about money and power.”[7] While talking about the benefits of Big Data and Analytics in the field of manufacturing and other businesses to improve processes or even predict and prevent certain events, a lot of data produced nowadays… Read more The transparent society in the era of Big Data

Industry 4.0 – How digitalization and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) lead to the next industrial revolution

Due to the digitalization of society and the benefits generated through consumer electronics industries and their companies have to overcome the obstacle of applying innovative information technologies to improve their businesses and profit from the current digitalization of everyday life and its inherent support of connectivity. Main focus of this article is to shed light… Read more Industry 4.0 – How digitalization and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) lead to the next industrial revolution

Data at the Edge – but what does it mean?

The guest speaker Dr. Jeff Welser, Vice President and Lab Director at IBM Research Almaden, spoke about a new era of computing. He is certain that after the present era of Cloud and Mobile Computing  the prevalent information technology paradigm is all about “Data at the edge”. One of his headlines states: “Data at the… Read more Data at the Edge – but what does it mean?

CA Innovation Lab – Why using open innovation and how to enable it?

One of the platforms mentioned by Chris Cruz was the California State Innovation Lab which encourages California State employees to ideate, create, test and collaborate to achieve great innovations (http://www.innovate.ca.gov).  It can be seen as an open innovation approach, although it is limited to employees only. But what are the characteristics of open innovation, why… Read more CA Innovation Lab – Why using open innovation and how to enable it?