First community contribution to Field 33: Innovation Interoperability by Dr. Lamyaa El Bassiti Knowledge Graphs (KG) describe facts about a certain domain of interest or parts of it, e.g. an organizational system, an operational process or a business role, by representing them as knowledge models linking entities and relations among…

We are excited to announce that Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm has joined Field 33 as Head of Research and AI. Georg is a rare luminary in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics and the Semantic Web. He is a Principal Researcher and Research Fellow at the…

First steps At Field 33 we consider ourselves an open source company. While it’s very easy to say that about ourselves (and many companies nowadays do), it’s far harder to actually execute on it with meaningful actions (“Show, don’t tell”). There are many ways in which a company can be an “open…

The desktop metaphor was coined and implemented for the first time in the ’70s by Xerox. This bold and humorous idea to put a desktop on a screen rather than the screen on the desktop is considered the original interface metaphor, the foundation of User Experience as a discipline. This…

The second half of the chessboard is a phrase, from a seminal essay by Ray Kurzweil about the rate of change in digital tech that contained stunning observations about the rice and chessboard problem, to illuminate the future power of the Moore’s law process. This is a beautiful narration of the rice and chess parable by…

Organizations globally and in all established industries face unseen challenges while transforming their businesses. Trying to analyze and measure everything will take forever and applying models that were right in the past has failed once too often. Experts appear for new fields of focus and entire new knowledge domains arise…

As of Monday (27.04.2020), facial masks will be compulsory to wear throughout Germany when shopping and on public transport. Until three weeks ago, the benefits and thus the necessity to wear masks were clearly questioned. …