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Jürgen Schmidhuber
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Jürgen Schmidhuber

Co-invented LSTM; insists the field keeps rediscovering his lab's work.

b. 1963GermanyDirector of AI Initiative, KAUSTScientific Director, IDSIACo-founder, NNAISENSE
WebsiteWikipedia
Known for
LSTMVanishing gradient analysis

3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 2021–now5 yrsKAUSTDirector of AI Initiative
  2. 2014–now12 yrsNNAISENSECo-founder
  3. 1995–now31 yrsIDSIAScientific Director

0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.

LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.

Taughtstudents and postdocs
Sepp HochreiterSepp Hochreiter

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