Kevin Ferguson

KEVIN FERGUSON has 18 years of experience in distributed systems and data science. He is a data scientist at Honor, and has experience at companies such as Google and Meebo. Together, Max and Kevin are co-authors of betago, one of very few open source Go bots, developed in Python.

books by Kevin Ferguson

Deep Learning and the Game of Go
  • January 2019
  • ISBN 9781617295324
  • 384 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Data Science / Deep Learning

Deep Learning and the Game of Go introduces deep learning by teaching you to build a Go-winning bot. As you progress, you’ll apply increasingly complex training techniques and strategies using the Python deep learning library Keras. You’ll enjoy watching your bot master the game of Go, and along the way, you’ll discover how to apply your new deep learning skills to a wide range of other scenarios!