Background

  • A physicist lent to IT, with physics never really wanting me back
  • Started as project manager around the world with GE
  • Managed a $16 million AI project in 1987-1991 with Siemens in Germany
  • Gartner Research VP 1991-2002
  • European Commission’s Independent Advisor on Digital R&D since 1992

Important Facts

  • Launched IoT coverage at Gartner in 2001, and accurately predicted its advent in time
  • Presided over dozens Master thesis dissertations at various universities
  • Invited member, EU Industrial Working Group, European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology

Strong Point of View

I think that serious analysis should be supported by quantitative facts. But I am aware that, if tortured long enough, data will confess to anything.

Available For

  • Private Questions

Content I have under construction

  • The chorus needs some tuning

  • Non von Neumann augmentations

  • The power law of business success