The lunch starts at 12:00, and the talk will start around 12:20.

NB: Wednesday BigInsight Lunches are open to staff and students from any of the BigInsight partners, including UiO, but not to others.

Speaker: Ole Christian Lingjærde, Professor Biomedical Informatics Research Group, UiO.

Location: Spiseriet, Norwegian Computing Center

Title: A brief history of deep neural networks

Abstract:

Deep neural networks have received great attention and become a popular machine learning tool for a range of applications. The historic roots of deep neural networks is a story of great early expectations, successes and failures, bitter disagreements, and a few people who never ceased to believe in the potential of the connectionist learning paradigm. In this talk, I will present some examples from this history and give my take on what motivated the transition from simpler neural networks to deep neural networks.