Definition Series: the supercomputer

As part of the continuing definition series, I bring here today an appraisal of a type of computer and a somewhat new concept in the computing world: that of the supercomputer. The notion of a new concept stems from the use of the word to refer to exceptional computing performance of some computers, mainly in …

Robust imaging by random transform-invariant convolutional neural networks

Today's paper review gets back to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with a nice paper from chinese researchers, featured at this year Association for Computing Machinery  (ACM) Conference in The Netherlands. It proposes a new enhancement for CNNs based on a random invariant transformation of CNNs, specifically designed for spatial transformations of images. CNNs still display …

Definition Series: Quantum Computing

Following on the Definition series that was started this month, today it is a quite interesting, long and pretty close to my background post. It is on the subject of Quantum Computing . Quantum Physics is one part of Physics that witnessed enormous success as a scientific theory in the 20th century. It is a scientific …

Data Science, Deep Learning and the Business advice in a Podcast

  The O'Reilly Media company is perhaps the best technology media and publishing company covering the US technology scene at the moment. At least from the point of view of the quality and breath of their offering, that span digital media content ranging from courses to on-line e-books, and bespoke web content ranging from newsletters …

The Information Age with Red Hat: co-posting

I would like to announce today that The Information Age from now and then will re-post some interesting Blog posts from the very good Blog from Red Hat that happily is also hosted as a WordPress Blog. And this is one of those interesting topics well worth to share and spread through the Information Technology …

A new series: Definitions. Access Governance

I will start today here a new series of posts that will collaborate on spreading the most important definitions around the immense world of Information Technology (IT). These definitions appear regularly in the website WhaIs.com, which is one among a vast collection of sites called TechTarget, that features topics such as Cloud Computing, Information Management, …

Text Classification Method in Business and Political studies

Long short-term memory (LSTM) is a relatively recent technique applied in the context of artificial neural networks. But it has reached a status of fundamental component in new products for major technology companies the likes of Google, Apple or Baidu. The paper review will be about the application of LSTM on two sets of distinct …

Heidelberg Laureate Forum: a lecture with Barbara Liskov

I will re-post the video from Heidelberg Laureate Forum from last 23rd September 2016, featuring the Computer Science pioneer Dr. Barbara Liskov. Elsewhere you can find plenty of information about the career and achievements of Dr. Liskov, but this post just took the fruition of an afternoon of thinking about the History of Computer Science …

An article on Social Networks: when to post or not to post – that is the question

I've chosen to post today on a topic that is becoming more and more important for many people and businesses. When should anyone post on Social Networks and what is the best schedule for posts in order to achieve the right optimized level of responses, feedbacks or clicks. I found this topic to be interesting …

The Blockchain by a Quant

Yesterday by the night I was still busy at work and thinking about future projects. And so one of my tasks was to check the video I present here today of an interesting Webinar. The Webinar was by the professional and distinguished Quantitative Finance expert Yves Hilpish. Yves is really good at what he does, …