Cynthia Breazeal is an American robotic scientist, entrepreneur, and researcher known for her work in social robotics. She focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and human-computer interaction. She is a professor at MIT, where she founded...
Ray Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, luminary thinker, and inventor who’s synonymous with technological foresight and groundbreaking creations. With a career spanning over five decades, he has woven himself into the fabric of technological evolution,...
John McCarthy was an American computer and cognitive scientist popularly dubbed the "father of artificial intelligence". And rightly so, since he coined the term back in the 1950s. His spirit of curiosity led him to explore the theoretical underpinnings of AI and lay...
"We study statistics with the main aim of solving problems in other disciplines." Today, #OnTheShouldersOf pays tribute to the legendary Indian-American mathematician and statistician Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao. Born in Bellary district, Karnataka, his contribution...
Marvin Lee Minsky is considered one of the founding fathers of AI. He was an American cognitive scientist, computer scientist, and educator renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). Minsky's work laid the groundwork for modern AI...
A renowned computer scientist, his work on artificial neural networks has had a profound impact on the field. His research has led to the development of some of the most advanced AI systems in the world. In 1997, Schmidhuber co-authored a pivotal paper on LSTM...
The Turing Award-winning computer scientist who pioneered machine learning and computer vision. He is dubbed the father of the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a type of network architecture that helps in image recognition. Not just rooted in academia, he was the...
Andrew Ng is one of the pioneers in the field of machine learning. He has carved quite a niche for himself as a gamechanger, by co-founding Google Brain, and founding DeepLearning.AI. He then went on to democratize the domain by co-founding Coursera and becoming an...
One of the first names you’d see when you look into #DeepLearning. He is the visionary behind the development of generative adversarial networks (GANs), the technology that creates super-realistic media from scratch. Next time you see a life-like gaming...
If not for Neumann, modern computing would not be where it is today. The game theory, the concept of self-replication, and computerized weather reports are just some of his key contributions to mathematics and computer science. Stay tuned every Friday for more on the...
If I have seen further, it is by standing #OnTheShouldersOf giants.” Our new series is inspired by this quote by the eminent Sir Isaac Newton. And who better to kick things off than with Alan Turing? The English mathematician's Turing Machine is credited with being...