Yann LeCun and his team at AT&T Bell Labs demonstrated a practical application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), using backpropagation to recognize handwritten zip codes on US mail envelopes. This proved that neural networks could solve industrial-scale visual recognition tasks.
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