My First Deep Learning System of 1991 + Deep Learning Timeline 1962-2013

2013/12/19 by Jürgen Schmidhuber, Schmidhuber, Jürgen
Computer Science · #Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) #Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.5548

openalex publication_date 2013/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Deep Learning has attracted significant attention in recent years. Here I present a brief overview of my first Deep Learner of 1991, and its historic context, with a timeline of Deep Learning highlights.

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