Great writeup about how deep learning came to be: http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning/ http://www.andreykuren

Great writeup about how deep learning came to be: http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning/ http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neu... (posted here a few months ago).