Byline: Gabriela Respicio A plumbing company serving a single suburb and a dental group operating across a metro area have almost nothing in common commercially, but they present the same problem to the agency that markets them. Both need to appear when someone nearby searches for what they sell, and neither is served by the…
Lakshimi Narayanan, General Manager of Mannai Information Technology Saudi Arabia. Image courtesy: MIT KSA The company’s presence at the event reflects its growing focus on how artificial intelligence, connected stadiums, smart cities, cybersecurity, cloud transformation, intelligent digital infrastructure, and digital workplace innovation are transforming sports, cities and enterprises across Saudi…
Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in seconds,…
Jungwhan Kim. Credit: Max Esterhuizen for Virginia Tech When College of Natural Resources and Environment geospatial data scientist Junghwan Kim asked an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator to create a picture of Blacksburg, the result wasn’t quite right. “The image looked generic,” Kim said. “It didn’t capture what makes Blacksburg unique.” But when he asked…
