AI People Glossary
AI People Glossary
Biographical entries for people who shaped artificial intelligence: the mathematical precursors, the founders of the field, the deep learning pioneers, today's industry leaders, and the researchers who study AI's risks and social costs.
Compiled by ALT-TEXT for wiki.alt-text.eu. Companion to the AI Terminology Glossary; entries below cross-link to the relevant concept pages.
Precursors: the mathematical roots
- Ada Lovelace
- Charles Babbage
- George Boole
- Thomas Bayes
- Warren McCulloch
- Walter Pitts
- Donald Hebb
- Claude Shannon
- Norbert Wiener
- Hedy Lamarr
- Grace Hopper
Founders: the symbolic era
- Alan Turing
- John McCarthy
- Marvin Minsky
- Frank Rosenblatt
- Seymour Papert
- Herbert Simon
- Allen Newell
- Karen Spärck Jones
Deep learning pioneers
- Geoffrey Hinton
- Yann LeCun
- Yoshua Bengio
- Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Fei-Fei Li
- Andrej Karpathy
- Regina Barzilay
Contemporary industry leaders
- Ilya Sutskever
- Demis Hassabis
- Mustafa Suleyman
- Andrew Ng
- Dario Amodei
- Daniela Amodei
- Mira Murati
- Sam Altman
- Daphne Koller