Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting better and better at doing more and more things: They quickly and accurately produce information, and are learning to drive cars more safely and reli- ably than humans.
This ï¬rst volume of the new Interdisciplinary Excellence Accelerator Series (IDEAS) is the ï¬rst major outcome of more than a year of joint work with its inception in a 2-day publishing lab workshop with researchers from the Excellence Cluster “Internet of Production†at RWTH Aachen (Germany) and editors from Springer held in March 2021.
More than politeness, it is a matter of intellectual integrity to warmly thank those who helped me become the author of this book. To begin with, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the members of the computer science laboratory who let me follow their day-to-day activities. Having an ethnographer around for more than two years must have been an odd experience.