[__jal]

This is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff".

If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as the last computer scientist to do something useful.

[jascii]

I would say there is a difference between development that significantly change the way we look at things and adapting known principals to changing demands.. Where exactly that boundary lays is, I admit, murky at best.

[sdenton4]

And machine learning is still stuck in the sixties...

[mateo411]

It's stuck in the 1760s with the publication of Bayes Theorem.