Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook’s image outage earlier this week offered the general public a ...

The recently published book Understanding Deep Learning by [Simon J. D. Prince] is notable not only for focusing primarily on the concepts behind Deep Learning — which should make it highly accessible ...

Computers generated a great deal of excitement in the 1950s when they began to beat humans at checkers and to prove math theorems. In the 1960s the hope grew that scientists might soon be able to ...