Curated playlist
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Jon KleinbergJon Kleinberg found that a web page can matter because of where it sends you.
- Yoshua BengioWhy has Yoshua Bengio, who helped build modern AI, spent recent years trying to slow it down?
- Herbert A. SimonHerbert Simon argued that people don't pick the best option, they settle for good enough. He called it satisficing.
- Terry WinogradTerry Winograd once taught a computer to obey commands about toy blocks.
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun spent a postdoc year under Geoffrey Hinton, then shared a Turing Award with him.
- Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton left Google in May 2023 to warn the world about AI. He had helped build the field for decades.
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil's team built a machine that read printed pages aloud for blind people. It was unveiled in January 1976.
- Cynthia DworkA technique built to make junk email costly later helped make bitcoin possible. Cynthia Dwork co-created it.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl gave computers a way to reason when facts are incomplete.
- Rodney BrooksRodney Brooks argued that robots don't need to think much to act.
- Stuart J. RussellStuart Russell called the AGI race "a race towards the edge of a cliff." He wrote it in January 2025.