Pierluigi Duranti, 
Alenia Aeronautica, Roma, Italy.

"Information, Intelligence and Ubiquity": to which extent do these
concepts concern modern aeronautics?  Some views of Alenia Aeronautica.

The advent of the digital technologies has significantly boosted the
aerospace world, progressively characterized by global information,
"intelligent" machines and search for ubiquity. Aerospace, in turn,
has also been one of the contributors in the revolution  of our
society in the course of the last decades.
This is, for instance, the case of  flight simulation: developed
initially for training aircraft  pilots, it has represented a
reference discipline  in a number of diversified applications
embracing, for instance, surgical training,  prediction and
management of  natural disasters,  the "virtual fabric". 
Such applications, on the other hand, have then rewarded their
promoters by giving back enhanced ICT products and related innovative
industrial processes, including the Virtual reality ,  profitably
integrated  and applied in aviation.
   Based also on  experiences carried out at Alenia Aeronautica, this
paper  describes how the concepts of  Information, Intelligence and
Ubiquity  have been developed in the aeronautical field  with
particular respect to the influence of the digital revolution, and
mentions possible future developments.