front matter
Foreword
From both a high-level “50,000-foot" perspective and a practical “in-your-hand" perspective, deep learning represents a remarkable technological convergence. Specifically,deep learning lives and thrives at the convergence of new, disruptive problem-solving approaches, scientific techniques, algorithmic methods, real-world applications, advanced mathematics, computational tools, computing resources, and the best minds in the computer and data sciences. Some would say that neural networks are not new. That’s true. Some would say computer vision was around long before convolutional neural networks came to everyone’s attention. That’s also true. And some would say that machine learning and AI have already gone through multiple springs and winters over the past few decades. That’s a winning hat trick for the naysayers. Right? I say, “Wrong!"