Chip Huyen
Chip Huyen是实时机器学习平台Claypot AI的联合创始人。凭借在 NVIDIA、Netflix和Snorkel Al的工作,她帮助了一些世界上最大的组织开发和部署机器学习系统。本书是Chip根据她在斯坦福大学开设的课程“机器学习系统设计”(CS329S)的讲义撰写的。
Chip Huyen致力于人工智能、数据、叙事的交叉研究。此前,她曾供职于Snorkel AI和NVIDIA,创立了一家AI基础设施初创公司(已被收购),并在斯坦福大学教授机器学习系统设计课程。她的著作Designing Machine Learning Systems(O’Reilly出版)已被翻译成10多种语言。
The animal on the cover of AI Engineering is an Omani owl (Strix butleri), a so-called “earless owl” native to Oman, Iran, and the UAE.
An owl collected in 1878 was dubbed Strix butleri after its discoverer, ornithologist Colonel Edward Arthur Butler. This bird was commonly known as Hume’s owl and it was thought to be widespread throughout the Middle East.
In 2013, a previously unknown species of owl was discovered in Oman and given the name Strix omanensis, the Omani owl. No physical specimen was collected, but the owl was described from photographs and sound recordings. Then, in 2015, an analysis of the Strix butleri holotype (the original specimen found in 1878) revealed that the owl was actually the same as Strix omanensis, and distinct from the more common owl found throughout the Middle East. Following naming conventions, the species kept the original name Strix butleri and the more common owl was given the name Strix hadorami, the desert owl.
The Omani owl has a pale and dark gray face and orange eyes. Its upperparts are a dark grayish brown and its underparts are pale gray with narrow dark streaks. It’s a medium-sized owl with a round head and no ear tufts. As a relatively new discovery, ornithologists are still researching the owl’s behavior, ecology, and distribution.
The IUCN conservation status of the Omani owl is data deficient. Many of the animals on O’Reilly covers are endangered; all of them are important to the world.