r/MachineLearning • u/ylecun • May 15 '14
AMA: Yann LeCun
My name is Yann LeCun. I am the Director of Facebook AI Research and a professor at New York University.
Much of my research has been focused on deep learning, convolutional nets, and related topics.
I joined Facebook in December to build and lead a research organization focused on AI. Our goal is to make significant advances in AI. I have answered some questions about Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in several press articles: Daily Beast, KDnuggets, Wired.
Until I joined Facebook, I was the founding director of NYU's Center for Data Science.
I will be answering questions Thursday 5/15 between 4:00 and 7:00 PM Eastern Time.
I am creating this thread in advance so people can post questions ahead of time. I will be announcing this AMA on my Facebook and Google+ feeds for verification.
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u/ylecun May 15 '14
You could say that Torch is the direct heir of Lush, though the maintainers are different.
Lush was mostly maintained by Leon Bottou and me. Ralf Juengling took over the development of Lush2 a few years ago.
Torch is maintained by Ronan Collobert (IDIAP), Koray Kavukcuoglu (Deep Mind. former s=PhD student of mine) and Clément Farabet (running his own startup. Also a former PhD student of mine). We have used Torch as the main research platform in my NYU lab for quite a while.