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• LibriSpeech: a thousand hours of audiobooks2015

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• Learning from human preferences2017
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David Baker

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David Blei

• Latent Dirichlet allocation2003
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David Forsyth

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• Parallel Distributed Processing1986

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• DeepMind enters the register2010
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• AlphaGo against Ke Jie, the last match2017
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Dennis H. Klatt

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• Wikidata: Wikipedia's shared facts, in the public domain2012

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• Google leaves Maven and writes down what it will not do2018

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• The variational autoencoder2013
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Dietrich Prinz

• Prinz's chess program1951

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Donald HebbHebb · D. O. Hebb

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Donald LovelandD. W. Loveland

• The Davis-Putnam procedure with splitting1961

Donald MichieD. Michie

• Matchboxes that learn to play1963

Dong Yu

• Deep networks in production recognition2011

Donna Harman

• TREC: a shared test for retrieval1992

Doug Cutting

• Apache Hadoop2006

Douglas Lenat

• AM1976
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Edmund Berkeley

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• Computers and Thought1963
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• The first NIPS conference1987

Edward Shortliffe

• MYCIN1974
• A blinded evaluation of MYCIN's advice1979
• PUFF: an expert system in a hospital's daily work1982

Eli Shechtman

• PatchMatch: patches found at random2009

Ellen Hildreth

• Edges as zero crossings, at several scales1980

Ellen M. Voorhees

• Searching recorded speech: the SDR track2000

Elon Musk

• OpenAI is founded2015
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Emily M. BenderEmily Bender

• Stochastic Parrots: can a language model be too big2021

Emma Strubell

• Training priced in kilowatt-hours2019

Eric Boyd

• ONNX: a model stops belonging to its framework2017

Eric Brill

• Brill's tagger: rules the machine learns1992
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Eric Horvitz

• A Bayesian junk-mail filter1998

Eric Petajan

• Lipreading cuts a recogniser's errors1988

Eric XuXu Zhijun · Eric Xu Zhijun

• Ascend 910 and MindSpore2019

Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

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Erik Learned-Miller

• Faces from the news as a recognition benchmark2007

Erling Wold

• Sounds found by how they sound1996

Ernst DickmannsErnst D. Dickmanns · E. D. Dickmanns

• VaMoRs drives the Autobahn at 96 km/h1987
• VaMP in dense traffic near Paris1994
• 1,600 km Munich to Odense, 95 percent autonomous1995

Ernst KussulE. M. Kussul

• TAIR: a robot run by a neuron-like network1975

Evan Hubinger

• Sleeper Agents: a backdoor survives safety training2024
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F. T. de Dombal

• The computer and acute abdominal pain in Leeds1972

Fabian M. Suchanek

• YAGO: Wikipedia sewn onto WordNet2007

Fabian Pedregosa

• scikit-learn2010

Fei-Fei Li

• A hundred and one classes instead of five2004
• ImageNet2009
• The first ILSVRC2010
• A thousand examples and a forced budget2025

Feng-hsiung HsuF.-h. Hsu

• Hsu's chess chip: from ChipTest to Deep Blue1986

Fernando Pereira

• Conditional random fields2001

Florian Schroff

• FaceNet: a face as 128 bytes2015

Francois Chollet

• Keras2015
• o3 on ARC-AGI2024
• The ARC Prize 2025 technical report2026
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Frank Rosenblatt

• Perceptron1958
• Mark I Perceptron: the perceptron in hardware1960
• Principles of Neurodynamics1962

Frank Seide

• Deep networks in production recognition2011

Frank van Harmelen

• OWL: an ontology whose conclusions compute2004

Franklin S. Cooper

• Sound and visible pattern, each from the other1951

Franz Och

• Statistical translation at Google2006

Frederick Jelinek

• Statistical speech recognition1976

Furu Wei

• Weights with three states instead of numbers2024

Gael Varoquaux

• scikit-learn2010

Garry KasparovKasparov

• Deep Blue wins a game against Kasparov1996
• Deep Blue defeats Kasparov1997

Gary B. Huang

• Faces from the news as a recognition benchmark2007

Gavin Newsom

• A law that lived fifteen days2024

Gene Frantz

• Speak and Spell1978

Geoffrey Hinton

• The Boltzmann machine1985
• Back-propagation1986
• Parallel Distributed Processing1986
• Adaptive mixtures of local experts1991
• Deep belief networks2006
• CIFAR-10: tiny images with labels2009
• Deep networks in speech recognition2009
• Rectified linear units2010
• Dropout2012
• AlexNet at ImageNet2012
• The sparsely-gated mixture-of-experts layer2017
• The Nobel Prize in Physics for neural networks2024

Georg Klein

• Tracking and mapping in separate threads2007

George A. Miller

• WordNet: a dictionary arranged by meanings1990

George Cybenko

• The universal approximation theorem1989

George Dahl

• Deep networks in speech recognition2009

George Devol

• Unimate on the General Motors line1961

George Logemann

• The Davis-Putnam procedure with splitting1961

George Tzanetakis

• Musical genre recognised from sound2002

George W. Furnas

• Latent semantic analysis1990

Gerald Tesauro

• TD-Gammon1992

Gérard Huet

• The calculus of constructions1986

Gerard Salton

• The document as a vector of terms1975

Gerhard Weikum

• YAGO: Wikipedia sewn onto WordNet2007

Gil Elbaz

• A crawl of the web becomes available to anyone2012

Gjergji Kasneci

• YAGO: Wikipedia sewn onto WordNet2007

Gordon Moore

• Moore's law1965

Greg Brockman

• OpenAI is founded2015
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Greg Linden

• Amazon: similar items instead of similar customers2003

Guillermo Sapiro

• Inpainting: a restorers’ word for a machine2000

H. Benjamin Brown Jr.H. Benjamin Brown

• One leg balances in three dimensions1983

H. Christopher Longuet-HigginsChristopher Longuet-Higgins

• Two views, eight points, a linear system1981

H. K. Dunn

• The sound spectrograph1946

H. T. KungHsiang-Tsung Kung

• Kung and Leiserson's systolic arrays1978
• Warp: a systolic computer in a van1986

Hans Moravec

• The Stanford Cart crosses a room1979

Hao Wang

• Hao Wang: Principia in minutes1960

Haotian Liu

• LLaVA: an open assistant that sees2023

Harrison Chase

• LangChain: a model call becomes a link, not an answer2022

Harry BarrowH. G. Barrow

• Freddy assembles a toy from a heap of parts1973

Harry E. Pople Jr.

• INTERNIST-I falls short of experts1982

Harry F. Olson

• The phonetic typewriter1956

Harry McGurk

• The McGurk effect: the eyes change what is heard1976

Harry Wechsler

• A blind evaluation for face recognition1996

Heng-Tze Cheng

• Wide & Deep: app recommendations in Google Play2016

Henry A. Rowley

• A neural network finds faces in photographs1995

Herbert Bay

• The same robustness, three times faster2006

Herbert Belar

• The phonetic typewriter1956

Herbert GelernterH. Gelernter · H. L. Gelernter

• Gelernter's machine proves geometry theorems1959

Herbert Robbins

• A Stochastic Approximation Method1951

Herbert Simon

• Logic Theorist1956
• IRE Symposium on Information Theory1956
• General Problem Solver1959
• Herbert Simon's Nobel Prize1978

Hermann Ney

• Kneser-Ney smoothing1995

Hiroaki Kitano

• The first RoboCup1997

Hiroaki Sakoe

• Dynamic time warping1978

Homer Dudley

• Speech remade from a buzz and a hiss1939

Howard D. Wactlar

• Informedia: searching video by what is said1999

Hubert Dreyfus

• What Computers Can't Do1972

Hugh Durrant-WhyteH. F. Durrant-Whyte

• Simultaneous map building and localization1991

Hugh Loebner

• The first Loebner contest1991

Hugo Laurencon

• ROOTS: a corpus whose sources were mostly chosen by people2022

Hugo Liu

• ConceptNet: common sense assembled from visitors' sentences2004

Ian Goodfellow

• Generative adversarial networks2014

Ian Witten

• Weka1999

Ichiro Kato

• WABOT-11973

Igor AleksanderI. Aleksander

• WISARD: a neural network made of memory chips1984

Ilia Shumailov

• Model collapse on a model's own output2024

Ilya Sutskever

• Dropout2012
• AlexNet at ImageNet2012
• Sequence-to-sequence2014
• OpenAI is founded2015
• OpenAI LP: profit with a ceiling2019
• OpenAI assembles a superalignment team2023
• The superalignment leads leave OpenAI2024
• Scaling laws for sparse autoencoders2024

Ion Stoica

• Chatbot Arena: a score that cannot be studied in advance2023
• vLLM: the memory of attention starts being paged2023

Irving John Good

• Good: the intelligence explosion1966

Isabelle Guyon

• The kernel trick and support vectors1992

Ivan HavelI. Havel · Ivan M. Havel

• GUHA: a machine that proposes hypotheses from data1966

J Strother Moore

• Boyer and Moore: induction without human hints1973

J. C. R. Licklider

• Man-Computer Symbiosis1960
• Project MAC is founded1963

Jack D. Myers

• INTERNIST-I falls short of experts1982

Jacob Steinhardt

• Five concrete problems in AI safety2016
• MMLU: 57 subjects the model did not study2020

Jaime Sevilla

• Three eras of compute: 21, 6 and 10 months2022

James Baker

• DRAGON1975
• Dragon Systems is founded1982

James Hays

• A hole in a picture filled from other photographs2007

James J. Collins

• A network finds a new antibiotic2020

James Lighthill

• The Lighthill Report1973

James McClelland

• Parallel Distributed Processing1986

James Slagle

• SAINT1961

Jan Leike

• Learning from human preferences2017
• OpenAI assembles a superalignment team2023
• The superalignment leads leave OpenAI2024

Janet Baker

• Dragon Systems is founded1982
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking1997

Janice AikinsJanice S. Aikins

• PUFF: an expert system in a hospital's daily work1982

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

• Diffusion models2015

Jason Wei

• Chain-of-thought prompting2022

Jean-Baptiste Alayrac

• Flamingo: vision and language from a few examples2022

Jean-Claude LatombeJ.-C. Latombe

• Probabilistic roadmaps1996

Jeff Barr

• Mechanical Turk: human work ordered through an API2005

Jeff Larson

• How a risk scale's errors fell by race2016

Jeffrey Dean

• MapReduce2004
• GNMT: neural translation in Google Translate2016
• The sparsely-gated mixture-of-experts layer2017
• Timnit Gebru leaves Google over a paper2020

Jeffrey Elman

• Finding Structure in Time1990

Jenifer C. Lai

• Word classes from mutual information1992

Jerome H. Friedman

• Gradient boosting2001

Jesse Dodge

• What is actually inside the corpus T5 was trained on2021

Jianlin Su

• Rotary position embedding (RoPE)2021

Jimmy Lin

• A language model on 0.94 gigabytes of text2021

Jimmy Wales

• Wikipedia launches2001

Jitendra Malik

• R-CNN: a convolutional network finds objects2013

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela

• Facebook: boosted trees ahead of logistic regression2014

Joel Ross

• Who the crowdworkers are: six surveys over twenty months2010

John Alan Robinson

• The resolution principle1965

John CannyJohn F. Canny

• An edge detector derived from three criteria1986

John Chandioux

• METEO translates weather forecasts1975

John Godfrey

• The Switchboard corpus1992

John Holland

• Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems1975

John Hopfield

• Hopfield networks1982
• The Nobel Prize in Physics for neural networks2024

John J. LeonardJ. J. Leonard

• Simultaneous map building and localization1991

John Jumper

• AlphaFold 2 at CASP142020
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction2024

John Koza

• Genetic programming1992

John Lafferty

• Conditional random fields2001

John M. Borst

• Sound and visible pattern, each from the other1951

John MacDonald

• The McGurk effect: the eyes change what is heard1976

John McCarthyMcCarthy

• Dartmouth Summer Research Project1956
• Programs with Common Sense1958
• Lisp1960

John P. McDermott

• R1 and XCON at DEC1980

John R. Pierce

• The ALPAC report1966

John Riedl

• GroupLens: predictions from other readers' ratings1994

John S. Garofolo

• Searching recorded speech: the SDR track2000

John Schulman

• Five concrete problems in AI safety2016
• Proximal policy optimisation (PPO)2017

John Searle

• The Chinese Room1980

John von Neumann

• Theory of Games and Economic Behavior1944
• First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC1945
• First Macy conference on feedback1946

John Yang

• The interface as a lever for an agent2024

Jon Kleinberg

• Three fairness conditions that do not meet2016

Jonas Geiping

• Reasoning by depth rather than by tokens2025

Jonathan Ho

• Denoising diffusion probabilistic models2020

Jonathan M. Stokes

• A network finds a new antibiotic2020

Jonathan Schaeffer

• Chinook becomes world champion1994

Jordan Hoffmann

• Chinchilla: compute-optimal training2022

Jort F. Gemmeke

• AudioSet: a vocabulary of sounds and two million clips2017

Josef Sivic

• Visual words: searching video like text2003

Joseph Engelberger

• Unimate on the General Motors line1961

Joseph Redmon

• YOLO: detection in one look2015

Joseph Weizenbaum

• ELIZA1966
• Computer Power and Human Reason1976

Joshua Goodman

• Chen and Goodman's comparison of smoothing1998

Joshua J. Fenton

• Computer-aided detection worsens screening2007

Joshua Lederberg

• The DENDRAL project begins1965

Joy Buolamwini

• Gender Shades: three commercial classifiers measured2018

Judea Pearl

• Bayesian networks1985
• Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems1988
• Causality2000

Julia Angwin

• How a risk scale's errors fell by race2016

Julian Bigelow

• Wiener's anti-aircraft predictor1942
• Behavior, Purpose and Teleology1943

Julian Feldman

• Computers and Thought1963

Julian Schrittwieser

• MuZero: planning without the rules2019

Jurgen Schmidhuber

• The vanishing gradient problem1991
• LSTM1997

Justin Basilico

• Netflix: what went from the Prize into production2012

K. H. Davis

• Automatic recognition of spoken digits1952

Kai-Fu Lee

• Sphinx1988

Kaiming He

• Residual connections (ResNet)2015

Karan Singhal

• A language model graded like a physician2022
• Physicians prefer the model's answers2023

Karandeep Singh

• Epic's sepsis model misses two thirds2021

Karen Spärck Jones

• Weighting a term by its rarity in the collection1972

Karl Cobbe

• GSM8K: school problems and a verifier2021

Karla Ortiz

• Artists sue the image generators2023

Kayee Hanaoka

• NIST measures demographic gaps across 189 algorithms2019

Kazuo HiraiK. Hirai

• Honda P2: the first humanoid with its own battery1996

Ke Jie

• AlphaGo against Ke Jie, the last match2017

Keiichi Tokuda

• A voice from a statistical model: HTS1999
• Blizzard Challenge: speech synthesis on shared data2005

Kelechi Ogueji

• A language model on 0.94 gigabytes of text2021

Kelly McKernan

• Artists sue the image generators2023

Kenneth AppelK. Appel

• Four colours: a proof the machine checked1976

Kenneth Colby

• PARRY, a model of paranoia1971

Kenneth Ward ChurchKenneth Church

• Statistical part-of-speech tagging1988

Kevin P. Murphy

• Object outlines drawn by a website’s visitors2005

Kishore Papineni

• BLEU: a formula scores translation quality2002

Kobus Barnard

• Object recognition as translation2002
• Words and pictures: a joint model2003

Kotaro Hara

• What data work actually pays: 3.8 million tasks measured2017

Kristy Milland

• What data work actually pays: 3.8 million tasks measured2017

Kunihiko Fukushima

• Cognitron1975
• Neocognitron1980

Kurt Bollacker

• Freebase: a fact base you could write to2008

Kyunghyun Cho

• The gated recurrent unit (GRU)2014

L. Y. Lacy

• The sound spectrograph1946

Larry Page

• PageRank and web scale1998

Lars Backstrom

• Facebook explains how it ranks News Feed2013

Laura Dabbish

• The ESP Game: image labels as play2004

Lawrence Rabiner

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