Early hopes for Artificial Intelligence soon evaporated. But, driven by the need for smarter searching and advert placing, increasingly sophisticated algorithms, combined with the sheer amount of data on the Web, have led to a growing Web intelligence. Gautam Shroff explores this trend, its conceptual basis, and what the future may hold.

Preface: Potential; 1 Look; 2 Listen; 3 Learn; 4 Connect; 5 Predict; 6 Correct; Epilogue: Purpose

Gautam Shroff is Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services and head of the TCS Innovation Lab in Delhi, India. He occasionally teaches in an adjunct capacity at the IIT Delhi and IIIT Delhi, as well as online via Coursera. Prior to joining TCS in 1998, Shroff had been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA and thereafter of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He has also held visiting positions at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, and at Argonne National Labs in Chicago. Shroff has published over 30 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computing, distributed systems, software architecture, software engineering, and information fusion. He has also written a book Enterprise Cloud Computing, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. This is his first trade book.