Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA
Deep Learning

The recent resurrection of multi-layer neural networks is generating a lot of interest currently, with deep learning appearing on the New York Times front page, and big companies like Google and Facebook hunting for the experts in this field. Jürgen’s talk will shed more light on how deep learning methods work, and why they work.

Some news and links about deep learning:
http://www.press.usi.ch/en/comunicati…
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/sci…
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplear…
http://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/how-bio-ins…
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/…

1st Züri Machine Learning Meetup
25th February 2014, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

— Zürich Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup