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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan
Director, Babilim Light Industries

Website | @aallan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist and researcher who has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and eight books and has been involved with several standards bodies. Originally an astrophysicist, Alasdair now works as a consultant and journalist, focusing on open hardware, machine learning, big data, and emerging technologies, with expertise in electronics, especially wireless devices and distributed sensor networks, mobile computing, and the internet of things. He runs a small consulting company and has written for Make magazine, Motherboard/VICE, Hackaday, Hackster.io, and the O’Reilly Radar. In the past, he has mesh-networked the Moscone Center, caused a US Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was at the time the most distant object yet discovered.

Sessions

4:00pm–4:40pm Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Implementing AI
Location: Concourse A
Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries)
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The AIY Projects kits bring Google's machine learning algorithms to developers with limited experience in the field, allowing them to prototype machine learning applications and smart hardware more easily. Alasdair Allan explains how to set up and build the kits and how to use the Python SDK to use machine learning both in the cloud and locally on the Raspberry Pi. Read more.