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2		Name	Summary	Citations	Contact	Affiliation	Notes	Paper	Citations	Born	Died	Age	Gender	Race	Website	Paper	Citations
3		Geoffrey Hinton	Father of DL. Published backpropagation in Nature 1986.	702026	geoffrey.hinton@gmail.com	U Toronto		Deep learning. LeCun, Bengio, Hinton. Nature 2015.	69038	1947	-	76	Male	White	https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
4		Yoshua Bengio	2018 Turing Award winner, highest h-index for CS. U Montreal & MILA.	692997		MILA		Deep learning. LeCun, Bengio, Hinton. Nature 2015.	69038	1964	-	59	Male	White
5		Robert Tibshirani		473125		Stanford							Male	White
6		Ilya Sutskever	Co-Founder OpenAI, Hinton disciple, ex-Google	426529	ilyasu@openai.com	OpenAI				1985	-	38	Male	White
7		Yann LeCun	Meta head of AI, was Hinton student. Invented CNNs. Published in 1985.	317756		Meta		Deep learning. LeCun, Bengio, Hinton. Nature 2015.	69038	1960	-	63	Male	Asian
8		Jeff Dean	Head of AI at Google	262714		Google				1968	-	55	Male	White
9		Ian Goodfellow	Google, OpenAI, Google, Apple, Google	255632		Google				1987	-	36	Male	White
10		Andrew Ng	Stanford, Google, Baidu	235603		Landing AI				1976	-	47	Male	Asian
11		Alex Krizhevsky	Received PhD under Geoffrey Hinton. Sold his startup, DNN Research, to Google (2013-2017). Left Google to join Dessa. Unclear what he is doing now, possibly venture, but not AI. Created CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100.	234531		N/A				1987	-	36	Male	White
12		Oriol Vinyals		222313		Google				1983	-	40	Male	White
13		Fei-Fei Li		217498		Stanford					-		Female	Asian
14		Aaron Courville		211018		MILA					-		Male	White
15		Quoc Le	Google	196079		Google				1982	-	41	Male	Asian
16		Jimmy Ba	U Toronto professor trained by Hinton	190212	jba@cs.toronto.edu	U Toronto					-		Male	Asian
17		Terrence Sejnowski		167886							-		Male	White
18		David Silver	DeepMind	157591						1976		47	Male	White
19		Richard Socher		155108						1983		40	Male	White
20		Leon Bottou		147441									Male	White
21		Judea Pearl		132955						1936		87	Male	White
22		Kyunghyun Cho		129917									Male	Asian
23		Pieter Abbeel	RL, robotics expert	119862						1977		46	Male	White
24		Noam Shazeer	Founder of Character.ai, 21 years at Google, co-author on Transformer paper.	117540		Character.ai				1976		47	Male	White
25		Stuart Russell	UC Berkeley professor with AI textbook	107284				Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd Edition	55931	1962		61	Male	White
26		Ashish Vaswani	Co-Founded Adept AI, left to start NewCo. Started at Google Brain. FIRST AUTHOR ON TRANSFORMER PAPER.	103571									Male	Asian
27		Niki Parmar	Co-Founded Adept AI, left to start NewCo, author on transformer paper.	98374									Female	Asian
28		Mehdi Mirza		95181										Asian
29		David Warde-Farley		86363									Male	White
30		Jacob Devlin	Google	81945									Male	White
31		Chris Williams		81847									Male	White
32		Bing Xu		75058										Asian
33		Peter Norvig	Google, co-wrote textbook with Russell	73827				Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd Edition	55931	1956		67	Male	White
34		Dzmitry Bahdanau		73782									Male	White
35		Hugo Larochelle	Ex-Twitter, DeepMind researcher	72983			https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zij_FTbJHsk	https://www.youtube.com/@hugolarochelle/videos					Male	White
36		Chris Pal		72503									Male	White
37		Sherjil Ozair		71761									Male	White
38		Demetri Terzopoulos		71469									Male	White
39		Jean Pouget-Abadie		66608									Male	White
40		Pascal Vincent		62262									Male	White
41		Caglar Gulcehre		61790									Male	White
42		John Schulman	OpenAI	60529									Male	White
43		Andrej Karpathy	Co-founder OpenAI	58730									Male	10
44		Abdelrahman Mohamed		51501
45		Ronald Williams	Co-published backpropagation with Hinton in Nature 1986.	50794									Male
46		Razvan Pascanu		48747
47		Xavier Glorot		47203									Male
48		Radford Neal		47115
49		George E Dahl		45997									Male
50		Francois Chollet		42720									Male
51		Holger Schwenk		39933
52		Aaron van den Oord		34494		Google		WaveNet	7059
53		David Rumelhart	Co-published backpropagation with Hinton in Nature 1986.	31800									Male
54		James Bergstra		31622									Male
55		Vinod Nair		26925
56		Ravi Ramamoorthi		26850
57		Nick Bostrom	Futurist	26207
58		Igor Babuschkin		20087
59		Demis Hassabis	DeepMind	16620						1976		47
60		Steven L Small		16054
61		Mustafa Suleyman	Co-founder DeepMind, Co-Founder Inflection AI	14426						1984		39
62		Peter Brown		12968
63		Manmohan	Chandraker	11601
64		Greg Brockman		7627
65		Stephen Wolfram	Mathematica	9864						1959		64
66		Sidney Fels		9509
67		David Luan	Co-Founded Adept AI, former head of engineering at OpenAI, led Google's 'giant model' efforts.	9350
68		Alessandro Sordoni		8963
69		Gary Marcus	Nobody	7446
70		Yi-Hsuan Tsai		5786
71		Dhruv Mahajan		5373
72		Anirudh Goyal		5085
73		Scott Aaronson	Quantum guy	3028
74		Nate Derbinsky		1823
75		Fred Bertsch	Adept AI, former Google data and collaborative AI systems	1177
76		Max Nye	Adept AI, former Google code generation model	306
77		Paul Buchheit	23rd employee at Google	18						1977	-	46
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80		Richard Bellman
81		Deep Blue
82		Eugene Charniak	Graduate student of Winograd and Minsky at MIT							1946	-	77
83		Steven Cook	NP-completeness pioneer
84		Tri Dao	Stanford
85		Erich Elsen	Adept AI, GPU computing pioneer, DeepMind model scaling effort
86		Ed Feigenbaum	Student of Herbert Simon
87		Anmol Gulati	Adept AI, former Google production speech recognition
88		John Hopfield	Created recurrent neural networks in 1982
89		George Hotz
90		Richard Karp	NP-completeness pioneer
91		Ray Kurzweil								1948		75
92		Elon Musk	Co-founder OpenAI, CEO of Tesla							1971		52
93		Augustus Odena	Adept AI, former Google code generation model
94		Marc Raibert
95		Nicolas Rashevsky	Mathematical models of the nervous system
96		Kelsey Schroeder	Adept AI, former Google giant model production infrastructure
97		Shakey								1966	1972	57
98		Patrick Winston
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102		Historical
103		Thomas Bayes	Determined how to update probabilities with new information	8187						1702	1761	321
104		George Boole								1815	1864	208
105		Rene Descartes	Rationalist, dualist							1596	1650	427
106		Gottlob Frege	extended Boole to create first-order logic							1848	1925	175
107		Herbert Gelernter	Geometry Thoerem Prover program in 1959
108		Kurt Godel								1906	1978	117
109		Cordell Green	Question-answering and planning systems
110		Donald Hebb	Wrote "The Organization of Behavior" in 1949, introduced the "Hebb synapse"	39379
111		Thomas Hobbes	Wrote on reasoning, Leviathan (1651)							1588	1679	435
112		Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	Was interested and built logical machines							1646	1716	377
113		Andrey Markov	In 1913, used his process to a 20,000 letter dataset to predict the next chain of letters							1856	1922	167
114		John McCarthy	First used term AI in 1956, made the "Dartmouth Summer" proposal in 1955 with Minsky, Rochester and Shannon.							1927	2011	96
115		Warren McCulloch	Perceptron
116		Marvin Minsky	Co-authored book on Perceptrons with Papert in 1969. Part of the Dartmouth Summer 1955 team.	10460						1927	2016	96
117		Alan Newell	Worked on GPS with Herbert Simon and JC Shaw	30483						1927	1992	96
118		Nils Nilsson	Worked on Shakey	35483						1933	2019	90
119		Lorente de No	Influenced Hebb
120		Seymour Papert	Co-authored book on Perceptrons with Minsky in 1969.	19640						1928	2016	95
121		Blaise Pascal	Built Pascaline, a working calculator							1623	1662	400
122		Walter Pitts	Perceptron
123		Nathaniel Rochester	IBM worker, part of the Dartmouth 1955 summer team.
124		Charles Rosen	Worked on Shakey							1917	2002	106
125		Frank Rosenblatt	Published Perceptron idea in 1958.
126		Arthur Samuel	Checkers program in 1952 at IBM. One of the first AI programs.
127		Claude Shannon	Mathematical Theory of Communication published in 1948. Part of the Dartmouth Summer team in 1955.							1916	2011	107
128		JC Shaw	Worked on GPS with Herbert Simon and Allen Newell
129		Herbert A. Simon	Worked on GPS with JC Shaw and Allen Newell. Simon predicted AI would be the world chess champion in 10 years (he was 30 years off),	453078	N/A					1916	2001	107
130		Ray Solomonoff	1956 attendee
131		Alfred Tarski								1902	1983	121
132		Alan Turing	Published 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence	61508						1912	1954	111
133		Leonardo da Vinci	Designed a calculator which would have worked							1452	1519	571