Tech

Challenges of the Autonomous Train

First published on IRT SystemX's blog.

Jeanine

6 minute read

<p>Artificial Intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in today’s world. One of the most impacted sectors, a major field of study at <a href="http://irt-systemx.fr/">IRT SystemX</a>, is Autonomous Transportation. While autonomous cars have garnered the most media attention, trains have recently joined the race towards autonomy. In this blogpost, we present the challenges that the rail industry must defeat in order to make driverless trains a reality.</p>

The Information, by James Gleick: A Review

"And then, when it was made simple, distilled, counted in bits, information was found to be everywhere."

Jeanine

4 minute read

<p>The books which surprise you the most often are books you have never read about, written by authors you have never heard of, upon which you stumble unsuspectingly. I can recall only one such case prior to the book I am reviewing today: “The Shadow of the Wind”, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, currently my favorite fiction novel.</p>