David is very interested in leading technology development in the intersection of aviation, data science and information technology. He doesn't stop there though, and encourages progressive development with cutting-edge design and design-thinking applications.
From the perspective of technology companies, one of the greatest challenges to developing cutting edge technology is ensuring that the innovation budget receives significant recognition among users, regulators and other stakeholders. Receiving...
While most aviation guidelines for applicability reference some kind of “human-centricity” or human interaction, these guidelines lack specific references to techniques that will actually implement that human-machine relationship. These potential systems aim to...
A black swan, as defined by Nassim Taleb in his influential The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable in 2007, is an outlier outside the realm of regular expectations. No historical data...
The coronavirus pandemic is making many industries rethink how they introduce their services to the public. Aviation, in particular, will be impacted for a variety of reasons. As a means of transport, flying...
During the last few months of 2019, European agencies rushed to publish a variety of roadmaps for artificial intelligence (AI), specifically focussed on the aviation sector. While AI is a fairly transversal...
New technologies are frequently discussed today in terms of how fast they can deploy and how greatly they can impact different markets. Gartner invented the famous “hype cycle” to explain this very phenomenon. The chart...
Internet 2.0 technologies have consolidated in very large platforms that exploit personal data. This “centralization” paradigm has already produced much controversy. With the surge of AI applications, the world is now aware of...
Trusted third parties are sought-after when confidential data needs to be managed. We’ve covered this in the Datascience.aero blog before. A trusted third party is an entity that collects confidential information, normally privacy...
IATA has shown their commitment to developing big data and machine learning applications in order to transform the industry to be more data-driven. The Aviation Data Symposium is a forum started last...
After accomplishing difficult tasks like translation, playing go or amazingly calling a hair saloon for an appointment, the industry of artificial intelligence is ready to take on safety critical tasks. For instance, in...