Get Tech: Understand Computers, the Internet and Cut Through the AI Hype. A crash course for non-techie entrepreneurs. - Softcover

Maggiori, Emmanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838337202 ISBN 13: 9781838337209

Publisher: Applied Maths Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

"The basics of computing, clearly explained." -Dermot Turing (Author of Prof: Alan Turing Decoded)

Why was your tech start-up product much harder to build than you initially thought? Why were you promised that AI would be the solution to everything, yet it didn't work for your business? Why is it so hard to communicate with techies?

This book will help you answer these questions. It is a crash course in the basics of computers, the Internet and artificial intelligence. It will help you speak with techies more effectively, and understand the challenges they may face when working on your digital products. It will ultimately help you think like a techie. And, in the midst of the AI hype, it will help you figure out if AI is what you really need.

Written for entrepreneurs, founders, businesspeople, and anyone eager to learn more about tech, this book tells readers:

• What computers can do and how software developers program them;
• Why some seemingly trivial problems are hard to solve with software;
• How the Internet works and what it takes to build a Web app;
• What the buzzwords big data and cloud are really about;
• How AI works and how you can make sure it doesn't learn nonsense;
• The limitations of AI, and whether you should use it in your business.

About this title

About the Author

Emmanuel Maggiori, PhD, is a computer scientist specialized in machine learning. He works as a consultant in data science, helping businesses extract value from data. He has written a variety of AI algorithms, for example, to automatically extract objects from satellite images. He also wrote an AI system that chooses for which price travel agencies sell hotel rooms to one another, processing over 28 billion rooms per day. His work may have played a role in your latest holiday deal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Applied Maths Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838337202
• ISBN 13: 9781838337209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 241