
Author Archives: timaikin
It’s the buzz phrase that’s got some people annoyed and others excited, the “Digital Twin” along with “AI” and “Machine Learning” but these are not just marketing jargon but ways to package process, technology and methods to make them more easily to recognise. However when the terms can’t be agreed, and there is no definitive…
The developments of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning over the past decades has accelerated but is often elevated by its reporting as something malevolent, not far off 2001’s Hal 9000 or Terminators Sky Net. It’s easy to see why people run scared when we look back over the last 2 decades. In 2006 Clive Humby…
When I did a search looking for articles and research on talking to buildings it was not the conversation AI, data science, social discord I found. Instead it was more about the abstract language of how a building talks to us through its emotional impact. The atmosphere of a cathedral or sports stadium the home…
We were having a conversation about how many people think the spreadsheet tables of #COBie are too complicated. Many people think it should all be populated from an application, but the reality is that just does not happen. You probably have the skeleton data come from an application, but the rest is getting data from a base…