There are probably not many people who would doubt that we have arrived in an age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Of course, this opens up many previously untapped opportunities, ranging from production to automated driving and everyday applications. In fact, not only digital assistants such as Google Home, Siri or Alexa, but also many web services and apps, smartphones and home appliances, cleaning robots and even toys already use AI or at least some kind of machine learning. [...]

What process one follows to formulate and resolve a problem, and how the abilities of human thinking can be combined with the technical abilities of a computer to do so, are at the core of what Computational Thinking is all about. Computational Thinking is a skill everyone should possess; it is a universal basic skill, that should be taught at school.It has close ties to programming; with many assuming that by teaching the latter automatically one will learn to think computationally. [...]

This article focuses on unique design process in regard to training ourselves using visualizations, and on the relation between individual and visualization. The reciprocity of the self-design is a the key concept of personal design, representing the new barrier to overcome. What are the characteristics of a designed object ? How can an object transform itself every day and not becomes obsolete? What about visualization that evolves autonomously as a human being? 1030 438 [...]

Spätestens seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhundert erleben die Menschen ihre Welt zunehmend als Zeit tiefgreifender globaler Veränderungen, die das Leben jedes Einzelnen massiv beeinflussen können und deren Tempo immer mehr an Fahrt aufnimmt. Dies zeigt sich nicht zuletzt in der sogenannten «digitalen Transformation». [...]

Hoch über uns schreitet sie in grossen Schritten einher: die „Digitalisierung“. Ein unscheinbares Wort, ein geradezu verharmlosender Begriff, der in aller Munde und Händen ist, ohne das sich jedoch die meisten der Tiefe seiner Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesellschaft bewusst sind. Wohl deshalb, weil der Begriff nicht bis zu ihren Köpfen vorgedrungen ist, jedenfalls nicht im Kern. [...]