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| | Fernando Berzal is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada (Spain), where he is a member of Intelligent Databases and Information Systems research group (IdBIS, for short). His current research interests include knowledge discovery in databases and data mining, OLAP and data warehousing, intelligent information systems, and almost anything related to software development, from model-driven development to design patterns and software engineering best practices. At the University of Granada, Fernando has tried to teach courses on computer programming, databases, and computer networks, with different degrees of success. He has also been an instructor in specialized courses about advanced programming techniques. Apart from his research and teaching work, Fernando decided that he would like to put his ideas into practice and has co-founded a start-up company called iKor Consulting. iKor Consulting offers research and development, consulting, outsourcing, and training services for those interested in pushing the limits of their technology into unchartered territories (at least, that's what he naively likes to think). Fernando received a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Granada in 1999, and was awarded the Spanish Computer Studies First National Prize in 2000. Fernando also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Granada, which he obtained in 2002 with a thesis about an alternative way to build decision trees. Fernando is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society. He was a guest editor for the ACM Crossroads issue on Windows programming and editor of the Computer Programming Briefme weekly e-zine. He has also acted as a referee for several first-class publications, such as IEEE Software and Data and Knowledge Engineering, as well as for several research-oriented conferences. Finally, he has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews, Dr. Dobb's Journal ERCB, ACM SIGMOD Record, IEEE Software, and IEEE Distributed Systems Online. Since he is an avid reader, reviewing items for publications such as Computing Reviews is one of the most gratifying activities he has found, and he sees it as an excellent way to keep himself up to date on new topics in the field. |
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 Deep learning for NLP and speech recognition
Kamath U., Liu J., Whitaker J., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 621 pp. Type: Book (978-3-030145-95-8)
As has happened in other applied domains, deep learning has revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) systems, from speech recognition to neural machine translation. In 2017, Yoav Goldberg provided an easy-to-read overview of th...
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Dec 22 2020 |
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Adversarial machine learning
Joseph A., Nelson B., Rubinstein B., Tygar J., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2019. 338 pp. Type: Book (978-1-107043-46-6)
Machine learning is behind many of the systems we typically use, both online and offline, and behind even more of the systems we might use in the future. Given their economic importance, they attract attackers who might be interested i...
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Introduction to deep learning
Charniak E., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019. 192 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262039-51-2)
Deep learning has taken many application domains by storm, specifically those where artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been struggling without too much success for decades. One of those domains is natural language processing ...
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Mar 5 2020 |
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Introduction to high performance scientific computing
Chopp D., SIAM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 2019. 453 pp. Type: Book (978-1-611975-63-5)
Parallel programming has become commonplace in many application domains, from deep learning and other machine learning approaches to computer simulations and scientific computing. Scientific computing, understood as the use of numerica...
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Jan 29 2020 |
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Parallel programming: concepts and practice
Schmidt B., González-Domínguez J., Hundt C., Schlarb M., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2018. 416 pp. Type: Book (978-0-128498-90-3)
Parallel programming is not optional. In the past, algorithm designers focused on the design of sequential algorithms, because of Moore’s law, and hardware speed improvements did the rest. Today, computer scientists and softw...
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Jun 29 2018 |
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Neural network methods in natural language processing
Goldberg Y., Morgan & Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2017. 310 pp. Type: Book (978-1-627052-98-6)
Deep learning has become the catchphrase to refer to artificial neural networks, one of the hottest research areas within machine learning. Now in their third generation, artificial neural networks have been used to crack problems that...
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Mar 26 2018 |
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Artificial intelligence: foundations of computational agents (2nd ed.)
Poole D., Mackworth A., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2017. 760 pp. Type: Book (978-1-107195-39-4)
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as the study of the design of intelligent computational agents. Unfortunately, this is a recursive definition caused by the lack of a consensus on what intelligence really means. In the past,...
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Jan 23 2018 |
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From neuron to cognition via computational neuroscience
Arbib M., Bonaiuto J., The MIT Press, 2016. 808 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262034-96-8)
An old aphorism says that, if our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them. Fortunately, many scientists are not so pessimistic, and they are unrelentingly trying to decipher ...
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Nov 15 2017 |
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The power of networks: six principles that connect our lives
Brinton C., Chiang M., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2016. 328 pp. Type: Book (978-0-691170-71-8), Reviews: (1 of 2)
Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang have taught an online course on networks to more than 100,000 students around the world using the Coursera platform since 2013 [1]. This course was based on a previous course taught by Mung Chiang at...
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May 8 2017 |
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Designing software architectures: a practical approach
Cervantes H., Kazman R., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2016. 320 pp. Type: Book (978-0-134390-78-9)
It is often forgotten that common sense is the least common of the senses. Sensible design advice, guidelines, and heuristics are often no more than just that: plain old common sense. However, rational reminders of our own fallibility ...
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