Lecture Notes for the 8. Wood Conference in Cape Town, Republic of South Africa — The chess-playing Deep Blue system beat reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. This point of time is only where the big picture begins — contemporary algorithms enable the emergence of self-learning hardware and software to adapt as they are exposed to new data or parameters. …

This year’s «COLLABORATION — ALL TOGETHER OR EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES?» slogan of SwissBau biannual fair in Basel touched a chord with me. © https://www.swissbau.ch/ BIM has turned out to be used particularly for the creation of digital twins of building and managing their digital footprints. On the stage Design, Construction…