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Jürgen Schmidhuber
NationalityGerman
Alma materTechnische Universität München[not verified in body]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Websiteidsia.ch/~juergen

Jürgen Schmidhuber is scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Manno, in Ticino in southern Switzerland.[1][2] He did his undergraduate studies from 1983 until 1987 at Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany.[2] He taught there as professor of computer science from 2004 until 2009, when he became a professor of artificial intelligence at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.[3]

Work

In 1997, Schmidhuber and Sepp Hochreiter published a paper on a type of recurrent neural network which they called long short-term memory or LSTM.[1] LSTM was further developed with Felix Gers, Alex Graves and others in Schmidhuber's lab. As of 2016, major technology companies are using LSTM networks as fundamental components in new products. Google uses LSTM for speech recognition on the smartphone,[1][4][5] the smart assistant Allo,[6] and Google Translate.[7][8] Apple uses LSTM for the Quicktype function on the iPhone[9][10][11] and for Siri.[12] Amazon uses LSTM for Amazon Alexa.[13]

In 1997, Schmidhuber pointed out that the simplest explanation of the universe would be a very simple Turing machine programmed to systematically execute all possible programs computing all possible histories for all types of computable physical laws.[14] This became a subject of Morgan Freeman's show Through the Wormhole.[15]

Company

In 2014, Schmidhuber formed a company, Nnaisense, to work on commercial applications of artificial intelligence in fields such as finance, heavy industry and self-driving cars. Sepp Hochreiter and Jaan Tallinn are advisers to the company.[1][16]

Recognition

Schmidhuber's team has won numerous machine learning contests and best paper awards.[2] He received the Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Networks Society in 2013,[17] and the Neural Networks Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2016,[18] with a citation for "pioneering contributions to deep learning and neural networks."[19] He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts[20][3] and the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b c d John Markoff (27 November 2016). When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’. The New York Times. Accessed April 2017.
  2. ^ a b c CV of Jürgen Schmidhuber at IDSIA (2017). Accessed May 2017.
  3. ^ a b Dave O'Leary (3 October 2016). The Present and Future of AI and Deep Learning Featuring Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber. IT World Canada. Accessed April 2017.
  4. ^ Google Research Blog. The neural networks behind Google Voice transcription. August 11, 2015. By Françoise Beaufays http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.at/2015/08/the-neural-networks-behind-google-voice.html
  5. ^ Google Research Blog. Google voice search: faster and more accurate. September 24, 2015. By Haşim Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, Françoise Beaufays and Johan Schalkwyk – Google Speech Team http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/google-voice-search-faster-and-more.html
  6. ^ Google Research Blog. Chat Smarter with Allo. May 18, 2016. By Pranav Khaitan, Google Research http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.at/2016/05/chat-smarter-with-allo.html
  7. ^ Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation (26 Sep 2016): Yonghui Wu, Mike Schuster, Zhifeng Chen, Quoc V. Le, Mohammad Norouzi, Wolfgang Macherey, Maxim Krikun, Yuan Cao, Qin Gao, Klaus Macherey, Jeff Klingner, Apurva Shah, Melvin Johnson, Xiaobing Liu, Łukasz Kaiser, Stephan Gouws, Yoshikiyo Kato, Taku Kudo, Hideto Kazawa, Keith Stevens, George Kurian, Nishant Patil, Wei Wang, Cliff Young, Jason Smith, Jason Riesa, Alex Rudnick, Oriol Vinyals, Greg Corrado, Macduff Hughes, Jeffrey Dean. https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144
  8. ^ "An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever." Cade Metz, WIRED, Date of Publication: 09.27.16. https://www.wired.com/2016/09/google-claims-ai-breakthrough-machine-translation/
  9. ^ "Apple’s Machines Can Learn Too." By Amir Efrati, The Information, Jun. 13, 2016 https://www.theinformation.com/apples-machines-can-learn-too
  10. ^ "With QuickType, Apple wants to do more than guess your next text. It wants to give you an AI". WIRED. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  11. ^ "iPhone, AI and big data: Here's how Apple plans to protect your privacy." By Steve Ranger, ZDNet, June 14, 2016. http://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-big-data-and-the-iphone-heres-how-apple-plans-to-protect-your-privacy
  12. ^ "iOS 10: Siri now works in third-party apps, comes with extra AI features." Chris Smith, BGR, June 13th, 2016 http://bgr.com/2016/06/13/ios-10-siri-third-party-apps/
  13. ^ "Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS." All Things Distributed, by Werner Vogels on 30 November 2016: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/11/amazon-ai-and-alexa-for-all-aws-apps.html
  14. ^ Brian Greene, Chapter 10 of: The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Knopf, 2011
  15. ^ Morgan Freeman (2011). TV clip: Schmidhuber on computable universes on Through the Wormhole. Accessed May 2017.
  16. ^ Alex Webb (16 January 2017). AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future. Bloomberg. Accessed May 2017.
  17. ^ INNS Awards Recipients. International Neural Network Society. Accessed December 2016.
  18. ^ Recipients: Neural Networks Pioneer Award. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Accessed April 2017.
  19. ^ Bronze plaque of IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Accessed May 2017 at IDSIA.
  20. ^ Members. European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Accessed December 2016.
  21. ^ Members. Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences. Accessed May 2017.


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