Portrait of Alan TuringFoundations of machine intelligence

Alan Turing

Mathematician whose 1950 paper helped frame the modern conversation about machine intelligence and the imitation game.

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Portrait of John McCarthyBirth of the AI field

John McCarthy

Organized the 1956 Dartmouth research project and is widely credited with introducing the term artificial intelligence.

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Portrait of Marvin MinskyEarly AI research

Marvin Minsky

A pioneer of artificial-intelligence research associated with MIT and early computational approaches to intelligence.

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Portrait of Geoffrey HintonNeural networks

Geoffrey Hinton

A key researcher in artificial neural networks whose work helped shape contemporary machine learning.

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Portrait of Fei-Fei LiComputer vision and human-centered AI

Fei-Fei Li

Computer-vision researcher associated with ImageNet and the broader human-centered AI movement.

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Portrait of Yoshua BengioDeep learning research

Yoshua Bengio

A major contributor to representation learning and deep-learning research.

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AI accountability

Joy Buolamwini

Researcher and advocate known for examining bias in facial-analysis technologies.

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