Stuart J. Russell

Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE FRS was born in 1962. He is a British computer scientist who has made important contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller was born on August 27, 1968, in Jerusalem, Israel. She showed very strong school skills early in life, which led her to join the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Later, she studied for a PhD in computer science at Stanford University, focusing on artificial intelligence.

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Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman (Hebrew: ניר פרידמן; born 1967) is an Israeli professor of computer science and biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research uses computer techniques and statistics to study systems biology, focusing on gene regulation, transcription, and chromatin.

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Zoubin Ghahramani

Zoubin Ghahramani FRS (Persian: زوبین قهرمانی) was born on February 8, 1970. He is a British-Iranian researcher who studies machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is the Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind and a Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

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Bernhard Schölkopf

Bernhard Schölkopf was born on February 20, 1968. He is a German computer scientist who is known for his work in machine learning, especially in areas like kernel methods and causality. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he leads the Department of Empirical Inference.

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Max Welling

Max Welling, born in 1968, is a Dutch computer scientist who works in the field of machine learning at the University of Amsterdam. In August 2017, a company called Scyfer BV, which was started by the university and co-founded by Welling, was bought by Qualcomm. After this, Welling worked as a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Netherlands.

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Mechanistic interpretability

Mechanistic interpretability, often shortened to mech interp, mechinterp, or MI, is a part of a larger area called explainable artificial intelligence. It focuses on understanding how neural networks work by examining the processes involved in their calculations. This method is similar to how people study binary computer programs to figure out what they do.

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Yeat

Noah Olivier Smith, born on February 26, 2000, is professionally known as Yeat (pronounced “YEET”). He is an American rapper, singer, and music producer. Yeat is recognized for his unusual music style, including a unique way of choosing words and clothing that mixes high-end brands with items like balaclavas.

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Emily M. Bender

Emily Menon Bender (born 1973) is an American language expert and teacher at the University of Washington. She leads a research group called the Computational Linguistics Laboratory. Her work focuses on how computers can understand and process human language.

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Ivan Sag

Ivan Andrew Sag was born on November 9, 1949, and passed away on September 10, 2013. He was an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He studied areas such as syntax and semantics, and he worked in the field of computational linguistics.

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