Virtual You: The Digital Twin Revolution | Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield in conversation @JLFInternational

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Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield’s inspiring book, Virtual You, provides an overview on how to build a virtual copy of a person in five steps. Together they take us on a journey of self-discovery, starting with the complexities of the human body, and how a digital version of ourselves can be created with data, supercomputers, and AI to usher in truly personal, predictive medicine.

Peter Coveney is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Member of Academia Europaea, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London. He has published three books for the general reader, The Arrow of Time, Frontiers of Complexity and Virtual You.

Roger Highfield is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group, a member of the Medical Research Council, and a visiting professor at Oxford and UCL. An accomplished author, he was the first to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble and has published extensively.

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