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AI Pioneers (All Time)

AI PioneersTech & Science

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  • Alan TuringFather of computer science
  • John McCarthyCoined 'artificial intelligence'
  • Marvin MinskyMIT AI Lab co-founder
  • Herbert A. SimonLogic Theorist / Nobel
  • Allen NewellLogic Theorist
  • Claude ShannonInformation theory
  • Frank RosenblattPerceptron inventor
  • Geoffrey HintonDeep learning / Turing 2018
  • Yann LeCunConvolutional nets / Turing 2018
  • Yoshua BengioDeep learning / Turing 2018
  • Andrew NgCoursera / Google Brain
  • Fei-Fei LiImageNet creator
  • Judea PearlBayesian networks / Turing 2011
  • Stuart RussellAI textbook / safety
  • Peter NorvigAI textbook / Google
  • Andrew BartoReinforcement learning
  • Richard SuttonReinforcement learning
  • Edward FeigenbaumExpert systems / Turing 1994
  • Raj ReddySpeech AI / Turing 1994
  • John HopfieldHopfield network / Nobel
  • Jurgen SchmidhuberLSTM co-inventor
  • Sepp HochreiterLSTM co-inventor
  • Demis HassabisDeepMind / AlphaFold Nobel
  • Ilya SutskeverAlexNet / OpenAI co-founder
  • Ian GoodfellowGANs inventor
  • Alex KrizhevskyAlexNet
  • David SilverAlphaGo lead
  • Pieter AbbeelRobotic learning
  • Daphne KollerProbabilistic graphical models
  • Sebastian ThrunSelf-driving / Udacity
  • Rodney BrooksRobotics / iRobot
  • Cynthia BreazealSocial robotics
  • Donald KnuthAlgorithms / Turing 1974
  • Joseph WeizenbaumELIZA chatbot
  • Arthur SamuelMachine learning term
  • Norbert WienerCybernetics founder