Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton deploy a deep convolutional network accelerated by CUDA to win the ImageNet competition. Their decisive victory demonstrates the absolute empirical superiority of deep learning over hand-crafted vision algorithms.
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Top 5 Structural Foundations: Origins
- The Deep Reinforcement Learning Breakthrough (DQN) — DeepMind published its historic paper Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning. They successfu...
- Google.com is Registered — In September, Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially register the domain google.com. The project mov...
- The Introduction of the Pascal VOC Classification Milestones — The 2005-2006 Pascal Visual Object Classes challenges established rigorous precision-recall curves f...
- The Launch of the Google Play Consolidated Cloud Storefront — Google merged its fragmented Android Market, Music, and eBook ecosystems into a single cloud digital...
- The General Problem Solver Framework (1959) — Allen Newell and Herbert Simon built the General Problem Solver (GPS), an ambitious software archite...
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