Timeline of machine learning

This page is a timeline of machine learning. Major discoveries, achievements, milestones and other major events are included.

Overview

Decade Summary
<1950s Statistical methods are discovered and refined.
1950s Pioneering machine learning research is conducted using simple algorithms.
1960s
1970s 'AI Winter' caused by pessimism about machine learning effectiveness.
1980s Rediscovery of backpropagation causes a resurgence in machine learning research.
1990s Work on machine learning shifts from a knowledge-driven approach to a data-driven approach. Scientists begin creating programs for computers to analyze large amounts of data and draw conclusions — or “learn” — from the results.[1] Support vector machines and recurrent neural networks become popular.
2000s Deep learning becomes feasible and neural networks see widespread commercial use.
2010s Machine learning becomes integral to many widely used software services and receives great publicity.

Timeline

A simple neural network with two input units and one output unit
OS/2 TD-Gammon game screenshot
Year Event Type Caption Event
1763 Discovery The Underpinngs of Bayes' Theorem Thomas Bayes's work An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances is published two years after his death, having been amended and edited by a friend of Bayes, Richard Price.[2] The essay presents work which underpins Bayes theorem.
1805 Discovery Least Squares Adrien-Marie Legendre describes the "méthode des moindres carrés", known in English as the least squares method.[3] The least squares method is used widely in data fitting.
1812 Bayes' Theorem Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes Théorie Analytique des Probabilités, in which he expands upon the work of Bayes and defines what is now known as Bayes' Theorem.[4]
1913 Discovery Markov Chains Andrey Markov first describes techniques he used to analyse a poem. The techniques later become known as Markov chains.[5]
1950 Turing's Learning Machine Alan Turing proposes a 'learning machine' that could learn and become artificially intelligent. Turing's specific proposal foreshadows genetic algorithms.[6]
1951 First Neural Network Machine Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds build the first neural network machine, able to learn, the SNARC.[7]
1952 Machines Playing Checkers Arthur Samuel joins IBM's Poughkeepsie Laboratory and begins working on some of the very first machine learning programs, first creating programs that play checkers.[8]
1957 Discovery Perceptron Frank Rosenblatt invents the perceptron while working at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory.[9] The invention of the perceptron generated a great deal of excitement and widely covered in the media.[10]
1967 Nearest Neighbor The nearest neighbor algorithm was created, which is the start of basic pattern recognition. The algorithm was used to map routes.[11]
1969 Limitations of Neural Networks Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert publish their book Perceptrons, describing some of the limitations of perceptrons and neural networks. The interpretation that the book shows that neural networks are fundamentally limited is seen as a hindrance for research into neural networks.[12][13]
1970 Automatic Differentation (Backpropagation) Seppo Linnainmaa publishes the general method for automatic differentiation (AD) of discrete connected networks of nested differentiable functions.[14][15] This corresponds to the modern version of backpropagation, but is not yet named as such.[16][17][18][19]
1979 Stanford Cart Students at Stanford University develop a cart that can navigate and avoid obstacles in a room.[20]
1980 Discovery Neocognitron Kunihiko Fukushima first publishes his work on the Neocognitron, a type of artificial neural network.[21] Neocognition later inspires convolutional neural networks.[22]
1981 Explanation Based Learning Gerald Dejong introduces Explanation Based Learning, where a computer algorithm analyses data and creates a general rule it can follow and discard unimportant data.[23]
1982 Discovery Recurrent Neural Network John Hopfield popularizes Hopfield networks, a type of recurrent neural network that can serve as content-addressable memory systems.[24]
1985 NetTalk A program that learns to pronounce words the same way a baby does, is developed by Terry Sejnowski.[25]
1986 Discovery Backpropagation The process of backpropagation is described by David Rumelhart, Geoff Hinton and Ronald J. Williams.[26]
1989 Discovery Reinforcement Learning Christopher Watkins develops Q-learning, which greatly improves the practicality and feasibility of reinforcement learning.[27]
1989 Commercialization Commercialization of Machine Learning on Personal Computers Axcelis, Inc. releases Evolver, the first software package to commercialize the use of genetic algorithms on personal computers.[28]
1992 Achievement Machines Playing Backgammon Gerald Tesauro develops TD-Gammon, a computer backgammon program that utilises an artificial neural network trained using temporal-difference learning (hence the 'TD' in the name). TD-Gammon is able to rival, but not consistently surpass, the abilities of top human backgammon players.[29]
1995 Discovery Random Forest Algorithm Tin Kam Ho publishes a paper describing Random decision forests.[30]
1997 IBM Deep Blue Beats Kasparov IBM’s Deep Blue beats the world champion at chess.[31]
1995 Discovery Support Vector Machines Corinna Cortes and Vladimir Vapnik publish their work on support vector machines.[32][33]
1997 Discovery LSTM Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen Schmidhuber invent Long-short term memory recurrent neural networks,[34] greatly improving the efficiency and practicality of recurrent neural networks.
1998 MNIST database A team led by Yann LeCun releases the MNIST database, a dataset comprising a mix of handwritten digits from American Census Bureau employees and American high school students.[35] The MNIST database has since become a benchmark for evaluating handwriting recognition.
2002 Torch Machine Learning Library Torch, a software library for machine learning, is first released.[36]
2006 The Netflix Prize The Netflix Prize competition is launched by Netflix. The aim of the competition was to use machine learning to beat Netflix's own recommendation software's accuracy in predicting a user's rating for a film given their ratings for previous films by at least 10%.[37] The prize was won in 2009.
2010 Kaggle Competition Kaggle, a website that serves as a platform for machine learning competitions, is launched.[38]
2011 Achievement Beating Humans in Jeopardy Using a combination of machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval techniques, IBM's Watson beats two human champions in a Jeopardy! competition.[39]
2012 Achievement Recognizing Cats on YouTube The Google Brain team, led by Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean, create a neural network that learns to recognise cats by watching unlabeled images taken from frames of YouTube videos.[40][41]
2014 Leap in Face Recognition Facebook researchers publish their work on DeepFace, a system that uses neural networks that identifies faces with 97.35% accuracy. The results are an improvement of more than 27% over previous systems and rivals human performance.[42]
2014 Sibyl Researchers from Google detail their work on Sibyl,[43] a proprietary platform for massively parallel machine learning used internally by Google to make predictions about user behavior and provide recommendations.[44]
2015 Achievement Beating Humans in Go Google's AlphaGo program becomes the first Computer Go program to beat an unhandicapped professional human player[45] using a combination of machine learning and tree search techniques.[46]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Bayes, Thomas (1 January 1763). "An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chance" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions. 53: 370–418. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0053. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1805). Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes (in French). Paris: Firmin Didot. p. viii. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
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  5. ↑ Hayes, Brian. "First Links in the Markov Chain". American Scientist. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (March–April 2013): 92. doi:10.1511/2013.101.1. Retrieved 15 June 2016. Delving into the text of Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse Eugene Onegin, Markov spent hours sifting through patterns of vowels and consonants. On January 23, 1913, he summarized his findings in an address to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. His analysis did not alter the understanding or appreciation of Pushkin’s poem, but the technique he developed—now known as a Markov chain—extended the theory of probability in a new direction.
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