Once you have identified the most significant individuals on a field, you can use google scholar alerts to get notified when they publish something new. (http:/

Once you have identified the most significant individuals on a field, you can use google scholar alerts to get notified when they publish something new. (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts http://scholar.google.com/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts). In the case of machine learning that would be Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng (this list is not exhaustive of course).