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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

You're reading from Deep Learning with TensorFlow Explore neural networks with Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786469786

Length 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Keras

Concepts

Deep Learning

Authors (4):

Zaccone

Milo

Karim

Menshawy

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Deep Learning FREE CHAPTER

2. First Look at TensorFlow

3. Using TensorFlow on a Feed-Forward Neural Network

4. TensorFlow on a Convolutional Neural Network

5. Optimizing TensorFlow Autoencoders

6. Recurrent Neural Networks

7. GPU Computing

8. Advanced TensorFlow Programming

9. Advanced Multimedia Programming with TensorFlow

10. Reinforcement Learning

Chapter 2. First Look at TensorFlow

TensorFlow is mathematical software and an open-source software library for Machine Intelligence, developed in 2011, by Google Brain Team. The initial target of TensorFlow was to conduct research in machine learning and in deep neural networks. However, the system is general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains as well.

The name is derived from the data model which is represented by tensors and from the data flow graph that stands for the TensorFlow's execution model. In 2015, Google has open-sourced the TensorFlow and all of its reference implementation and made all the source code available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. After that, TensorFlow has achieved wide adaption, form academia and research to industry and following that recently the most stable version 1.0 has been released with a unified API.

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Authors (4)

Zaccone

Zaccone

Giancarlo Zaccone has over fifteen years' experience of managing research projects in the scientific and industrial domains. He is a software and systems engineer at the European Space Agency (ESTEC), where he mainly deals with the cybersecurity of satellite navigation systems. Giancarlo holds a master's degree in physics and an advanced master's degree in scientific computing. Giancarlo has already authored the following titles, available from Packt: Python Parallel Programming Cookbook (First Edition), Getting Started with TensorFlow, Deep Learning with TensorFlow (First Edition), and Deep Learning with TensorFlow (Second Edition).

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Milo

Milo

Contacted on 04/07/2017 - Brendan Rodrigues

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Karim

Karim

Md. Rezaul Karim is a researcher, author, and data science enthusiast with a strong computer science background, coupled with 10 years of research and development experience in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining algorithms to solve emerging bioinformatics research problems by making them explainable. He is passionate about applied machine learning, knowledge graphs, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Currently, he is working as a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Before joining FIT, he worked as a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a lead software engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea.

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Menshawy

Menshawy

Ahmed Menshawy is a Research Engineer at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has more than 5 years of working experience in the area of ML and NLP. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computer Science. He started his Career as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Computer Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. He taught several advanced ML and NLP courses such as ML, Image Processing, and so on. He was involved in implementing the state-of-the-art system for Arabic Text to Speech. He was the main ML specialist at the Industrial research and development lab at IST Networks, based in Egypt.

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