Deep Learning class #1

After a first all-day introduction to Deep Learning (https://www.meetup.com/Holberton-School/events/228364522/) back in February, the Deep Learning class will continue in April and May. These classes will mostly be hands-on workshops (please don't forget to bring your laptop), with a minimum of formal theory to support these.

In the April 13 class, students and visitors will:

• Review the foundations of Deep Learning and a number of concepts necessary to assemble and tune models.
• Install Keras, a Deep Learning framework, both easy to use and powerful.
• Train their first model and discover a way to add numbers they didn't teach in 1st grade.
• Learn about recognizing hand-written digits.

Programming level: Beginner to advanced. Bring your laptop and ID.

Important: We will check IDs at the entrance. You will not be able to enter the school if you are not on the list. Please give us your real name when you register to this meetup.

About Gregory Renard

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I'm an artificial intelligence solutions architect and big data guy working on Personal Assistant for Cars, IoT data (Machine Learning, Deep Learning), connected things and Voice/Semantic Search (NLU, DeepNLP) for over than 15 years.

I'm convinced the complete AI will born from a smart mix of deep technologies and the art of composition of themselves. The next step of AI is Emotional AI and the Personal Assistant is the new Website.
Based on my experience and vision about AI / Personal Assistant, I co-founded xBrain, Inc., which has created an easy to use artificial intelligence cloud-based platform for next generation intelligent web and personal assistant developers. The xBrain platform supports natural communications between any object or device in the Internet of Things to enable simple applications which model human communication and intelligence.

As a former math teacher and data scientist, I'm passionate about a connected world where universal access to information and knowledge frees people to achieve their full potential.

About Louis Monier

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Louis Monier was the founder and CTO of the AltaVista search engine in 1995. He is widely considered one of the fathers of Web search. He has held senior positions at Google, eBay and various start-ups and has worked at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC’s Western Research Laboratory. Recently Louis was co-founder and CTO of Qwiki, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, acquired by Yahoo; Chief Scientist at Proximic, a company in the Internet advertising space, acquired by ComScore; and founder and CEO of Kyron, a company at the intersection of health care and big data.

Louis has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris.

About Keras

Keras (http://keras.io/) is a minimalist, highly modular neural networks library, written in Python and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow (https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow) or Theano (https://github.com/Theano/Theano). It was developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. Being able to go from idea to result with the least possible delay is key to doing good research.

About Holberton School

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Holberton School (https://www.holbertonschool.com/) is a community-driven school. We train full-stack software engineers in two years, using peer and project-based learning. Most of our keynotes and meetups are open to the community. Read more on the website (https://www.holbertonschool.com/)