Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Terence Tse
Executive Director, Nexus FrontierTech, Professor of Finance, Hult International Business School
Kariappa Bheemaiah
Associate research scientist , Cambridge Judge Business School
Mark Esposito
Chief Learning Officer, Nexus FrontierTech, Professor at Hult International Business School
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 Structure of a neuron.
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 Simplified neural network.The computing univers
Image: Gyuri Papay and Tony Hey, 2015
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Image: Gyuri Papay and Tony Hey, 2015.
 Multilayer Perceptron.
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