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100
His seminal work opened up the field by formulating memory storage as a Lyapunov function and he later turned to working on the use of time in olfactory cortex.
Who is John Hopfield?
100
This model of a biological neuron won the creators a Nobel prize for its elegant description of the activation and inactivation of ionic currents in a neuron.
What is a Hodgkin Huxley model?
100
The 16-layer CNN commonly used as a reference network for visual object recognition was developed by the Visual Geometry Group at this university.
What is Oxford?
100
It is the name of the rule originally described in 1949 as “When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A’s efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased.”
What is the Hebbian learning rule?
100

This company leads the way in gaming but now prints money with their big AI chips.

What is NVIDIA?

200
He reportedly said that “it took 17 years to get deep learning right; one year thinking and 16 years of progress in computing, praise be to Intel.”
Who is Geoff Hinton?
200
This nonlinear cell responds to oriented edges or texture throughout its receptive field, regardless of the exact position of the feature.
What is a complex cell?
200
This pioneering CNN was created to demonstrate how handwritten characters could be recognized reliably after being trained on tens of thousands of examples.
What is LeNet?
200
This algorithm for improving DNN training was created by Srivastava and Hinton and others, inspired by observations of neural pruning during early brain development.
What is dropout?
200

It was one of the first hardware CNN acceleration companies, co-founded by a former Yale and now Purdue professor.

What was TeraDeep? (founded by Eugenio Culurciello)

300

It is the name of this scientist who died in a sailboat incident exactly on his 43rd birthday, perhaps in part due to the criticism by MIT’s Marvin Minsky of his seminal work on single layer networks that led to a long fallow period for work on multilayer neural networks.

Who was Frank Rosenblatt?

300
These binocular cells respond to stimuli that are closer to or further away than the point of fixation.
What are near and far cells?
300

It is name for this network that was devised by Teuvo Kohonen about 1990 which self-constructs to cluster data into connected low dimensional map regions.

What is a self organizing feature map?

300
This iterative optimization algorithm uses running averages of both the gradients and the second moments of the gradients of the objective function to adapt the learning rate of each parameter individually.
What is Adam?
300

It was recently locally founded to exploit the results of building one of the first digital spiking neural network accelerators.

What is SynSense?

400
He was a protege of Jean Piaget, developed the Logo programming language, and co-authored one of the most influential early works on machine learning.
Who was Seymour Papert?
400
This cortical area has many cells responsive to complete objects, in particular, to human and animal faces.
What is area IT?
400

This pioneering hardware network implementation of brain computing was created in the 1980s by Kunihiko Fukushima and was used to demonstrate handwritten character recognition about 15 years before the creation of MNIST.

What is the Neocognitron?

400

It is the full name of the current most popular model-free type of reinforcement policy learning.

What is Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)?

400
It was founded in 1988 to turn neuromorphic technology into reality, built the first hardware neural network for automatic USA check reading, and later came to lead the world in a widely-used human interface device.
What is Synaptics?
500
They formulated a popular technique to improve convergence of training deep networks that relies on making bunches of images on which the gradient is computed.
Who are (Sergey) Ioffe & (Christian) Szegedy?
500
The number 86 billion is often quoted.
What are the number of neurons in the human brain?
500
This network developed in the late 1980s was one of the first to establish methods for temporal credit assignment, in work from Gerry Tesauro, on a classic dice game of luck and skill; the key to its success was the clever representation of game states.
What is TD-Gammon?
500

It is the asymptotic original Hopfield network memory storage capacity in in uncorrelated binary vectors that can be reliably stored and retrieved as a percentage of the number of neurons in the network.

What is 14%?

500
It was founded in 1988 by Dan Hammerstrom to accelerate photoshop image processing and the CNAPS chipset also was used for pattern recognition.
What was Adaptive Solutions Inc.?
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