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Xinlei Chen, Abhinav Shrivastava and Abhinav Gupta at Carnegie Mellon University present NEIL (Never-Ending Image Learner) at ICCV 2013

In December 2013, Xinlei Chen, Abhinav Shrivastava and Abhinav Gupta at Carnegie Mellon University presented NEIL (Never-Ending Image Learner) at ICCV 2013, a continuously running system that autonomously mined semantic relationships between visual concepts from unlabelled web images without human supervision.

Google Brain Unsupervised Neural Network Learns to Detect Cats from YouTube Frames

In June 2012, Quoc V. Le and colleagues at Google Brain published research showing that a 1,000-machine, 16,000-core neural network trained without labels on 10 million YouTube thumbnail images spontaneously developed a neuron selectively responsive to human and cat faces, demonstrating large-scale unsupervised feature learning from unlabelled video data.

IBM TJ Watson Research Center Publishes Statistical Approach to Machine Translation

In August 1988, researchers at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, including Peter F. Brown, John Cocke, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Fredrick Jelinek, Robert L. Mercer, and Paul S. Roossin, presented a statistical framework for machine translation at COLING 1988, replacing rule-based linguistics with probabilistic models trained on bilingual text corpora.

Backpropagation Described by Arthur E. Bryson Jr. and Yu-Chi Ho

In 1969, Arthur E. Bryson Jr. and Yu-Chi Ho of Harvard University described a gradient-based optimisation procedure for multi-stage dynamic systems in their textbook Applied Optimal Control, presenting what is now recognised as an early statement of the backpropagation principle in a supervised-learning context.