[misiti3780]

One thing I always found interesting is Lecun is credited with developing covnets, but Hinton is apparently credited with scaling them and showing the world how great they are in the paper from 2012 - why was Hinton's group (Toronto) able to publish these ground breaking results before Lecun's group (NYU)

[pramodliv1]

Geoff Hinton answers this question in episode 6 of the Talking Machines podcast. http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2015/3/13/how-machine...

Geoff Hinton had grad students who wanted to work on the problem, but Yann LeCun didn't.

"In about 2012, it should have been Yann's group, but Yann was unlucky, he didn't have a student who really wanted to do it. But we had a couple of students who wanted to do it and we took all of Yann's techniques and added some of our own."

[misiti3780]

interesting - i took the course but did not notice that - thanks!

[Houshalter]

IIRC the deep learning revolution started with pretraining and RBMs, which I believe Hinton invented.