<div dir="ltr">great, juicy feast! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Tom Mitchell</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:tom.mitchell@cs.cmu.edu">tom.mitchell@cs.cmu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM<br>Subject: history of machine learning!<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ml-all@cs.cmu.edu">ml-all@cs.cmu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Machine Learning Department,</div><div><br></div><div>Short version: I'll be giving the SCS Katayanagi Distinguished Lecture next Tuesday, January 27, on the history of machine learning. Writing just to invite you all to join in - hope to see you there! Details below.</div><div><br></div><div>Longer version: I'm going to release a 13 episode podcast on The History of Machine Learning next month. Episodes 2 through 13 will be video interviews with a dozen people you know of, including Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Rich Sutton, Leslie Valiant, Daphne Koller, Mike Jordan, ... Episode 1 will be a recording of Tuesday's lecture, which will feature video clips from each of the above interviews.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Tom</div><div><div><font size="4"><b><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/195215063" target="_blank"><br>SCS Katayanagi Distinguished Lecture</a></b></font></div><div>Tuesday, <b>27 January 2026</b></div><div><b>4:00 pm</b></div><div>Rashid Auditorium, Gates Hillman 4401</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/" target="_blank"><b><font size="4">TOM M. MITCHELL</font></b></a><br>SCS Founders University Professor<br>Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, and<br>Block Center for Technology and Society<br>Carnegie Mellon University</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><b><font size="4">The History of Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here?</font></b></div><div><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Machine learning is the key technology underlying today's amazing artificial intelligence systems.<br><br>How did we get to today's technology which now supports a trillion dollar AI industry? What were the key scientific breakthroughs? What were the surprises and dead-ends along the way, as seen by the researchers who created them? Who were the personalities involved, and what were they thinking at the time? What should we learn from all this?<br><br>This talk will explore the history of machine learning based on personal experience of the speaker, augmented by video interviews with a dozen pioneering researchers in the field.</div><div><br></div><div>—<br><br><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>Tom M. Mitchel</b>l</a> is the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the world's first Machine Learning Department, and served as Interim Dean of the School of Computer Science (2018-2019). Beginning with his 1979 Ph.D. research he has worked in machine learning and AI, and he remains optimistic about its future. In 2010 Mitchell was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering "For pioneering contributions and leadership in the methods and applications of machine learning." Mitchell is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow and Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).<br><br>…</div><div><br></div><div><em><strong>About the Lecture:</strong> The Katayanagi Lectures recognize the best and the brightest in the field of computer science and are presented by the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in close cooperation with the Tokyo University of Technology (TUT). The lectures recognize both senior and junior talent. The series were established through a gift from Japanese entrepreneur and education advocate, Mr. Koh Katayanagi, who founded TUT and other technical institutions in Japan over many multiple decades. We are delighted to have TUT as partners.</em></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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