DSDE: Emerging Technology

Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group and the European Space Agency have signed a memorandum of intent to analyze, develop, and implement space-enabled technology and services to support the renewable energy sector.

Neuromorphic computing could completely transform everything about the technology industry from programming languages to hardware.

2020 is finally ending. While not likely to register as anyone’s favorite year, 2020 did have some noteworthy advancements, and 2021 promises some important key trends to look forward to. A collection of experts presents thoughts on the past year and predictions for the year to come.

Startup Cerebras benchmarked its pint-sized computer against 16,000 Xeon cores in the Department of Energy's Joule supercomputer on a problem of computational fluid dynamics.

Augmented reality is gaining momentum in monitoring hazardous environments such as oil rigs remotely. With advances in sensors, video processing, machine learning, and deep neural networks all rendered into eyewear, there is an opportunity for enterprises to leverage this technology.

New guidelines from the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity recommend that all stages of the IoT device lifecycle need to be considered to help ensure devices are secure.

The subsea-technology company’s LUMA X subsea wireless communication modem will enable real-time streaming of HD-quality video and 4K images wirelessly through water, allowing the operators of autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor its interventions from its control rooms onshore.

The data industry has gotten exceptionally good at building large, complex software systems. We’re now starting to see the rise of massive, complex systems built around data. Despite all of this, there is still a tremendous amount of confusion around what technologies are on the leading end.

To drive progress in the field of data science, the authors propose 10 challenge areas for the research community to pursue. Because data science is broad, with methods drawing from computer science, statistics, and other disciplines, these challenge areas speak to the breadth of issues.

Incorporating imagination into AI agents has long been an elusive goal of researchers in the space. Imagine AI programs that are able not only to learn new tasks but also to plan and reason about the future.