I'd never heard of him, but certainly I'd heard of his LSTM network. Mostly I've learned about the well know members of the AI community through Andrew Ng's int

I'd never heard of him, but certainly I'd heard of his LSTM network. Mostly I've learned about the well know members of the AI community through Andrew Ng's interviews with them in his coursera courses. Jürgen Schmidhuber is a notable absentee (but I haven't done all the courses yet). Plus the company he works for Nnaisense was the NIPS 2017 winner for the 'Reinforcement learning with musculoskeletal models' mentioned yesterday here on HN [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17092321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17092321