Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original goals: Artificial Intelligence.
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Andrew Ng who is one of the co-founder of Coursera, an ex-employee of Google, professor at University of Stanford and an important contributor for machine learning has just been hired by Baidu. Andrew Ng is going to take on the role of Chief Scientist at Baidu in Silicon Valley. Adam Coates, previously a PhD and Postdoc student of Andrew Ng, is going to join Baidu as well and his research is going to be mainly focused on unsupervised learning algorithms.
Deep Learning
http://deeplearning.net/
Andrew Ng is hired by Baidu
http://deeplearning.net/2014/05/17/andrew-ng-is-hired-by-baidu/
http://recode.net/2014/05/16/baidu-hires-coursera-founder-andrew-ng-to-start-massive-research-lab/
http://blog.coursera.org/post/85921942887/a-personal-message-from-co-founder-andrew-ng
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527301/chinese-search-giant-baidu-hires-man-behind-the-google-brain/
Deep Learning Tutorial
http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/tutorial/
Deep Learning – GMIC SV 2014 Day 2
GMIConference
https://youtu.be/lofDYThfHxs
Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist, Baidu
Thought Leader Stage
December 2, 2014
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