I
N
N
O
V
A
T
O
R
S
&
T
R
A
I
L
B
L
A
Z
E
R
S
Chief exeCutive OffiCer
ReAl-Time innovATionS (RTi)
StAn
Schneider
For the interview, see page 44
grow exactly
as fast as you can
hire great people.
wHat is tHe best advice
you received?
AI is the most epic transition of our time. It promis-
es to make nearly the entire planet run smarter and
better. It truly offers unprecedented hope for the
future. But AI alone can't do much of anything in a
real-world system. That intelligence must connect
to networks of sensors, motors, and operators to
be useful. And that connection has to work exactly
right every time.
So, our product, in a nutshell, goes and gets the
right data to the right place at the right time. It
sounds hard, but it's really very simple: it makes it
seems like any information is always available as
if it were in local memory, even if that information
physically lives across thousands of distributed
devices. With access to any data, an algorithm,
sensor, or actuator can then operate as if it were
a separate system that somehow "works as one"
with all the other systems.
What game does it change? Well, we run
over 1500 designs, including most of the US
and allies Navy surface ships, the Western
Grid balancing system, GE Healthcare's hos-
pital device architecture, and even Canada's
air traffic control system. All of these are far
more intelligent than they could otherwise be
because smart algorithms can reliably control
distributed devices. It's a very horizontal basic
technology.
How is your organization cHanging tHe game witHin your industry sector?
