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Author Nicolo Valigi , Gianluco Mauro
Zero to AI uses clear examples and jargon-free explanations to show the practical benefits of AI. Each chapter explores a real-world case study demonstrating how companies like Google and Netflix use AI to shape their industries. You begin at the beginning, with a primer ....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Gregory J.L Tourte , Emma Tonkin
What is text mining, and how can it be used? What relevance do these methods have to everyday work in information science and the digital humanities? How does one develop competences in text mining? Working with Text provides a series of cross-disciplinary perspect....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision, Second Edition
Author David duChemin
Within the Frame (2009) received critical recognition for its humanity and practical teaching, and in this revision of his classic best-selling book, David duChemin encourages you to search for what matters to you and not give up until you convey it through your ph....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Winning the National Security AI Competition: A Practical Guide for Government and Industry Leaders
Author Chris Whitlock , Frank Strickland
In introducing the National Security Commission on AI’s final report, Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, and Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense, wrote: “The human talent deficit is the government’s most conspicuous AI deficit and the single greatest inhibitor to buying, building, and fiel....
Release Date 2022/11 -
Author Romeo Kienzler , Jerome Nilmeier
Since its 2015 release, TensorFlow has become a de facto standard among enterprise AI technologies. This comprehensive report introduces the new features of TensorFlow 2.x and Keras to developers and data scientists with machine learning skills. Many companies consider Te....
Release Date 2020/07 -
What to Expect From Artificial Intelligence
Author Avi Goldfarb , Joshua S. Gans , Ajay K. Agrawal
To understand how advances in artificial intelligence are likely to change the workplace — and the work of managers — in coming years, you need to know where AI delivers the most value. Show and hide more
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Dean Wampler
The use of distributed programming is increasing. High availability requires multiple machines and often multiple data centers. Machine learning and AI models are run as parallel tasks on clusters to reduce training time. But distributed programming has always been hard t....
Release Date 2020/09 -
Author Mark Treveil , Lynn Heidmann
For years, organizations have struggled to move data science, machine learning, and AI projects from the realm of experimental to having real business impact. One reason is because pivoting operations around these technologies involves more than just technology--the orche....
Release Date 2020/11 -
Author Alice LaPlante
As your business tries to make sense of today’s staggering amount of structured and unstructured data, traditional analytics will take you only so far. The key to success over the next few years will depend on augmented analytics, a method that embeds machine learn....
Release Date 2019/10 -
What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Author Ben Lorica , Mike Loukides
From computer vision to game playing, artificial intelligence (AI) has made a lot of progress in the past few years. Companies such as Google and Facebook have already placed huge bets on this technology, and over the next decade, AI features will steadily creep in....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Ben Lorica , Mike Loukides
As this brief article explains, AI broadly defines many systems designed to answer questions and solve problems. Consider Amazon’s recommendation system. Or the GPS navigation system that talks to you. Like plumbing or electricity, we’ll soon take AI for granted as....
Release Date 2018/04 -
What CEOs Get Wrong About Vision and How to Get It Right
Author Dan Ciampa
Many executives don’t understand how to craft a compelling vision for change that will gain widespread commitment within their organization. Leaders should start by asking themselves: What will people see, hear, and feel once the changes have been achieved? ....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Author Mike Barlow , Jon Bruner
Artificial intelligence has made enormous progress in the last five years, and after a decade of texting and messaging on smartphones, people have become comfortable with conversational interfaces. Put together, those two trends mean we’ll soon be chatting with con....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Wavelet Neural Networks: With Applications in Financial Engineering, Chaos, and Classification
Author Antonios Alexandridis , Achilleas Zapranis
A step-by-step introduction to modeling, training, and forecasting using wavelet networksWavelet Neural Networks: With Applications in Financial Engineering, Chaos, and Classification presents the statistical model identification framework that is needed to successf....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Author Rachel Batish
Create conversational UIs using cutting-edge frameworksKey FeaturesBuild AI chatbots and voicebots using practical and accessible toolkitsDesign and create voicebots that really shine in front of humansWork with familiar appliances like Alexa, Google Home, and FB M....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
Author Dustin Coates
Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. You’ll learn to build applications that listen to users, store information, and rely on user context, a....
Release Date 2019/07 -
View Updating and Relational Theory
Author Chris Date
Views are virtual tables. That means they should be updatable, just as "real" or base tables are. In fact, view updatability isn’t just desirable, it’s crucial, for practical reasons as well as theoretical ones. But view updating has always been a controversial topi....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Veracity of Big Data: Machine Learning and Other Approaches to Verifying Truthfulness
Author Vishnu Pendyala
Examine the problem of maintaining the quality of big data and discover novel solutions. You will learn the four V’s of big data, including veracity, and study the problem from various angles. The solutions discussed are drawn from diverse areas of engineering and ....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Cristiano Bellavitis
In the venture capital (VC) industry, firms often co-invest with other peers in syndicated deals. The process of syndication is a form of investment alliance that generates networks of VC firms and start-up companies. Despite the prominent role played by syndicates....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Using Artificial Intelligence to Set Information Free
Author Andrew S. Winston , Robert D. Austin , Andrew J. Hoffman , George Westerman , Andrew
Artificial Intelligence is about to transform management from an art into a combination of art and science. Not because we’ll be taking commands from science fiction’s robot overlords, but because specialized AI will allow us to apply data science to ou....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Using Artificial Intelligence to Promote Diversity
Author H James Wilson , Paul Daugherty
What if, instead of perpetuating harmful biases, AI helped us overcome them? What if our systems were taught to ignore data about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics that aren’t relevant to the decisions at hand? They can do all that ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Uses and Risks of Business Chatbots
Author Tania Peitzker
This world first summary of the evolution of 2D chatbots in websites, backends of portals and social media apps, and conversationally advanced 3D mixed reality cognitive interfaces, serves several purposes.It dissects some of the best-known case studies to emerge from the....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Fifth Edition
Author Mark Edward Soper , Terry W Ogletree
Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Fifth Edition is the definitive guide for anyone with a network, from home networking enthusiasts to professional network administrators. The book explains network architectures and protocols using plain English and real-world exam....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook - Second Edition
Author Jorge Palacios
Explore various recipes to build games using popular artificial intelligence techniques and algorithms such as Navmesh navigation A*, DFS, and UCB1Key FeaturesExplore different algorithms for creating decision-making agents that go beyond simple behaviors and movem....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Understanding support vector machines
Author Aurélien Géron
What you’ll learn—and how you can apply itYou’ll learn the core concepts one of the most popular models in Machine Learning—support vector machines—how to use them, and how they work. Readers will gain an intuitive understanding of the mathematics involved in SVMs,....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Natasa Kejzar , Anuska Ferligoj , Vladimir Batagelj , Patrick Doreian
This book explores social mechanisms that drive network change and link them to computationally sound models of changing structure to detect patterns. This text identifies the social processes generating these networks and how networks have evolved.
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author Tom Stuart
Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inf....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Turning Text into Gold: Taxonomies and Textual Analytics
Author Bill Inmon
In our distant past, we attempted to create wealth by turning everyday substances into gold. This was early alchemy, and ultimately it did not work. But the world has changed. Today we have a type of "modern alchemy" that really can create gold. We can transfo....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Trends in Deep Learning Methodologies
Author Vincenzo Piuri , Sandeep Raj , Angelo Genovese , Rajshree Srivastava
Trends in Deep Learning Methodologies: Algorithms, Applications, and Systems covers deep learning approaches such as neural networks, deep belief networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, deep auto-encoder, and deep generative networks, which have emerged as powerful comput....
Release Date 2020/11 -
Transformers for Natural Language Processing
Take your NLP knowledge to the next level and become an AI language understanding expert by mastering the quantum leap of Transformer neural network modelsKey FeaturesBuild and implement state-of-the-art language models, such as the original Transformer, BERT, T5, and GPT-2, using concepts that outp....