FPGAs and Deep Machine Learning

The concept of machine learning is not new. Attempts at systems emulating intelligent behavior, like expert systems, go as far back as the early 1980's. Three latest development are pushing forward "Machine Learning": As in many other fields, development of Machine Learning is also seeing development on algorithms that take advantage of the new hardware capabilities. According Wikipedia, Deep Learning is "a part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on learning representations of data. An observation (e.g., an image) can be represented in many ways such as a vector of intensity values per pixel, or in a more abstract way as a set of edges, regions of particular shape, etc. Some representations are better than others at simplifying the learning task".