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[Juergen Schmidhuber]

Announcements on Deep Learning:

22 Sept 2013: our deep neural networks won the MICCAI 2013 Grand Challenge on Mitosis Detection (important for cancer prognosis): 
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearningwinsMICCAIgrandchallenge.html

1 Sept 2013: our deep NN are the best artificial offline recognisers of Chinese characters from the ICDAR 2013 competition (3755 classes), approaching human performance: 
http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0261

Oct 2013: My first Deep Learner of 1991 + Deep Learning timeline 1962-2013 (also summarises the origins of backpropagation, still the central algorithm of Deep Learning). An experiment in massive open online peer review: 
www.deeplearning.me

Jobs 2013/2014: Join the team that won more international competitions in machine learning & pattern recognition than any other team:  
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/eu2013.html

Sept/Oct 2013: G+ posts on Deep Learning 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100849856540000067209/posts

-- Older news, with recent updates: --

2012: Deep NN wins brain image segmentation contest (relevant for the huge brain projects in EU and US):  
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearningwinsbraincontest.html

2012: 8th international pattern recognition contest won since 2009 
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-bio-inspired-deep-learning-keeps-winning-competitions

2011: First superhuman visual pattern recognition 
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/superhumanpatternrecognition.html

2009: First official international pattern recognition contests won by Deep Learning (LSTM RNN) 
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/handwriting.html
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html

1991: Fundamental Deep Learning Problem discovered and analysed 
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/fundamentaldeeplearningproblem.html

Deeplearn it!  
www.deeplearning.it  



Jürgen Schmidhuber
Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/