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.

Last update February 26, 2019 by Claudio Davide Ferrara

Style-Transfer with TensorFlow

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

Last update February 25, 2019 by Luca Ferretti

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

Last update February 22, 2019 by Codemotion

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

Last update February 17, 2019 by Mara Marzocchi

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

Last update February 16, 2019 by Paolo Caressa

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

Last update February 16, 2019 by Albenzio Cirillo

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

Last update February 12, 2019 by Paolo Caressa

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

Last update February 11, 2019 by Luca Ferretti

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

Last update February 10, 2019 by Mara Marzocchi

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

Last update February 7, 2019 by Flavia Weisghizzi

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

Last update February 5, 2019 by Flavia Weisghizzi

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

Last update February 5, 2019 by Mara Marzocchi

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