Interview With Juergen Schmidhuber

There are close to 3.5 billion smartphone users in the world, and if you happen to be one of them, then the chances are high that Juergen Schmidhuber has already touched your life.  Be it Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, all the top speech and voice assistants work on LSTM or Long Short Term Memory. Though these digital assistants and other applications of LSTMs are fairly modern, their conception, however, dates back to the early 1990s. Introduced by Juergen Schmidhuber and his doctoral student Sepp Hochreiter, these networks would become one of the most profitable applications in the history of deep learning. However, the mastermind behind innovations such as LSTMs, Dr.Schmidhuber largely remains unknown outside the research circles unlike his contemporaries such as Yann Lecun