ZurichAI: Schmidhuber
Tue 21 Oct
|Zürich
Jürgen Schmidhuber, the pioneering AI legend, is coming to ZurichAI. We'll have an intimate session covering the past, present and future of AI. NOTE: Fully booked. Only show with registration!
Time & Location
21 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
Zürich, OAT ETH Zurich (19th floor), Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland
About the Event
NOTE: This event is fully booked. Registration will be checked for entry! We're honoured to host an original legend in the field of machine learning: Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber. Jürgen has pioneered and advanced many techniques that are foundational to modern AI: Jürgen led groups at TUM and IDSIA which developed the foundations of today’s most-cited neural nets, e.g., LSTM (1997, most-cited AI of the 20th century), Highway Network (2015 - its later variant ResNet became the most-cited AI of the 21st), DanNet (2011 - the first deep GPU CNN to win image-recognition competitions, before AlexNet/VGG!); Generative Adversarial Network (1990, for Artificial Curiosity), unnormalized linear Transformer (1991). The core ideas behind GANs, Transformers, pre-training, and neural distillation can all be traced to his lab's work. Note: We're on the 19th floor this time for extra seating capacity, not the usual 14th.