Our former PhD student Shane Legg is co-founder of deepmind (with Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman), just acquired by Google for ~$500m [1]. In my research group at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Shane was a student of my senior researcher Marcus Hutter, a pioneer of the theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence [2], who is now professor in Canberra. Deepmind also employs my former PhD students Dr. Daan Wierstra (#4), Dr. Tom Schaul, Dr. Alex Graves. They were funded by SNF grants (Alex later also by my postdoc grants at TU Munich), and have been working on deep recurrent artificial neural networks  (RNN) [3].  Alex focused on supervised learning with LSTM RNN [3,6,7], Daan and Tom on evolving RNN [4] and Reinforcement Learning RNN [5]. Search for their papers in the reference links [3-7]; compare published work of deepmind [8]; compare [9].

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/Google-beat-Facebook-For-DeepMind-Creates-Ethics-Board
[2] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html
[3] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html
[4] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolution.html
[5] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rl.html
[6] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearning.html
[7] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/handwriting.html
[8] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602
[9] http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/compressednetworksearch.html


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