There are a lot of good online courses to get started, I like the Stanford CS231n lectures - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-g0-6_RRUA&list=PLLvH2FwAQhnpj1WEB

There are a lot of good online courses to get started, I like the Stanford CS231n lectures - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-g0-6_RRUA&list=PLLvH2FwAQhnpj1WEB-jHmPuUeQ8mX-XXG&sns=em http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-g0-6_RRUA&list=PLLvH2FwAQhn... For keeping up with the latest research, once you know what you are doing, reading papers on Arxiv daily/weekly is a great way to keep up, nearly everything gets published there