Figure timeline
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
business · American artificial intelligence researcher · artificial intelligence researcher · computer scientist · university teacher · entrepreneur · also Andrew Y. Ng, Andrew Ng, Andrew Y Ng, Ng
Born 18 April 1976 · Q2846695
25 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
1 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
“A lot of the progress in machine learning – and this is an unpopular opinion in academia – is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.”
“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”
“A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.”
“Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it’s still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.”
“It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries. “It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.”
“If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.”
“If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.”
“stokes fear in anyone daring to innovate.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Amazon announced Ng's appointment to its board of directors
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ng launched a new course "AI for Everyone"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Launched and currently heads the AI Fund, initially a $175-million investment fund for backing artificial intelligence startups
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Joined Baidu as chief scientist, and carried out research related to big data and AI
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Along with Stanford computer scientist Daphne Koller he cofounded and was CEO of Coursera, a website that offers free online courses to everyone
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And Fast Company's Most Creative People in 2014
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ng founded the Google Brain project at Google, which developed large-scale artificial neural networks using Google's distributed computing infrastructure
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stanford launched a total of three massive open online course (MOOCs) on machine learning (CS229a), databases, and AI, taught by Ng, Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun, and Jennifer Widom
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2009).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published a number of Stanford courses online for free
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
His group at Stanford was one of the first in the US to start advocating the use of GPUs in deep learning
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ng earned his master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Earned his undergraduate degree with a triple major in computer science, statistics, and economics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, doctorate (1993).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1976-04-18.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
To Ronald Paul Ng, a hematologist and lecturer at UCL Medical School, and Tisa Ho, an arts administrator working at the London Film Festival
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections