AlexNet, a groundbreaking neural network developed in 2012 by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton, has been released in source code form by the Computer History Museum in collaboration with Google. This model significantly advanced the field of AI by demonstrating a massive leap in image recognition capabilities.
Gordon Bell, engineer, entrepreneur, and visionary, passed away on May 17, 2024. He was instrumental in the development of minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), co-founded the Digital Computer Museum, and contributed to the growth of Microsoft Research.