AI applications and machine learning algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in the IT industry. For example, projects like Tensorflow allow us to exploit a technological stack to create not only AI learning models but also to manage … Read more
AI/ML
Artificial intelligence is a discipline belonging to computer science that studies the theoretical foundations, methodologies and techniques that allow the design of hardware systems and software program systems capable of providing the electronic processor with performances that, to a common observer, would seem to be of exclusive relevance of human intelligence.
Tensor Processing Units: enabling the next generation of fast, affordable AI
Legend says it was written on the back of a napkin. In 2013 Jeff Dean, Google's Head of AI, did some calculations and realized that if all the Android users in the world used their smartphone speech to text feature for one minute each day, they would … Read more
The Deep Learning Revolution: interview with Christian Heilmann
Christian Heilman had two main aims at Codemotion Berlin: to make all developers fall in love with JavaScript and to make people less afraid of robots taking over the world. Not a simple task - but he certainly made great strides during his … Read more
SELECT for Cities contest: solve challenges and create value for citizens
The SELECT for Cities project was conceived as a competition between companies operating in the Smart Cities sector and the Internet of Things (IoT), with the aim of identifying innovative solutions to specific problems in European cities. This is a … Read more
The Snap4City API: a tool for smart city developers
Integrated platforms and frameworks are the standard solution to the development, test and deployment of applications within complex environments: for example, no one today would program from scratch a neural network while there are plenty of … Read more
How Snap4City can bring your vision of a Smart City to reality
Interoperability is such a crucial term when your mind gets enlightened with your smartest idea. You start thinking how to make it work and the more advanced and complex your project, the more you start realising that problems should be tackled one … Read more
The integration between data and devices: the Snap4City solution
It is commonly understood that we are living in a “data era”: in the past we had the “commodity era”, when raw materials were the basis of economies and the only goods to be commercialized, next the “energy era”, when industrial productions emerged … Read more
AI with a devOps mindset: Thiago De Faria on how to unlock the full potential of Machine Learning
Digital transformation is changing the business world, making the role of IT and information technology more and more central and inalienable. The new needs and the new technologies required by the product teams to the technical teams are creating … Read more
Snap4City Dashboards: Overlook Your City
As we know from the article on sentient cities, Snap4City is an open-source, standard-based, data-driven, service-oriented and user-centric platform, enabling large-scale co-creation of applications and IoT/IoE services. As the name suggests, it … Read more
Toward the Sentient City with Snap4City
A sentient city knows what it has and makes decisions based on current, accurate and shared information. In the smart city, databases become real sensors, able to detect daily variations in the life of buildings, citizens, companies, … Read more
Snap4City hack: a big online hackathon on the topics of Smart City and IoT.
Snap4City is a open source, 100% flexible living lab capable to keep under control the real time city evolution: reading sensors; computing and controlling key performance indicators, KPI; detecting unexpected evolutions; performing analytics; taking … Read more
Using Snap4City, Innovation and Technology to Improve City
The world is quickly becoming always more connected, day after day. The population is fast getting more urbanized: according to the United Nations, about 70% of the global population will live in cities by 2050, cities that use a different kind of … Read more
Let’s all discover TensorFlow Eager and TensorFlow Lite
Simone Scardapane is a very talented AI and machine learning researcher and developer. In this interview he told us what are TensorFlow Eager and TensorFlow Lite. Hello Simone. At one of the AperiTech meetups you presented your talk "Let's all … Read more
Eager execution – interactive codelab, a low-level interface to write TensorFlow code in a simpler and more intuitive way
Simone Scardapane is a very talented AI and machine learning researcher and developer. He gave us some precious suggestions to simplify TensorFlow-based development. Hello Simone. As we know, Tensorflow is one of the most popular deep learning … Read more
Big Data Stream Analytics without code
Stefano Pampaloni shared with us his opinion on Big Data Stream Analytics. Hello Stefano. First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself! I'm the sole administrator of Seacom, a company based in the technological centre of Navacchio near … Read more
Facebook Messenger: what are chatbots and what can they offer
Hello Paolo, let’s start with a simple question: could you tell us something about yourself? I did my studies in computer engineering and I got in touch with AperiTech through the Facebook Developer Circle Rome community. I'm the CTO at Hej! which … Read more
Introduction to the Deep Learning Italia Platform
Matteo, could you start by introducing yourself? My name is Matteo Testi, I'm 28, I live in Rome and I'm the Founder of Icaro Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Italia. My hobbies are sports and writing. After a few years in Italy for … Read more
Bot Framework: how to create our first Bot
Hello Alessio. During one of our #AperiTech meetups, you presented a talk on a very interesting topic: the Bot. Could you tell us about that? In this talk, being more focused on Microsoft technologies, we talked about the toolkit for bot … Read more
Neural networks, software 2.0, and differentiable computers
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few years, the growth of machine learning and its predominance in the technological world will not come as a surprise to you. From the point of view of a developer, this change has unravelled in … Read more
Stève Sfartz: Building advanced Chats Bots and Voice Interactive Assistants
Stève Sfartz has a long career in the IT industry. Starting from NeXT and Java in '90, he always has taken up and worked on cutting-edge technologies and frameworks. Nowadays Stève is deeply involved with Web APIs, and he leads a global team of … Read more