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Jeff Dean

Advancing AI and software engineering

Lead of Google AI
Google's chief scientist
Co-founder of Google Brain

Jeffrey Adgate Dean is an American computer scientist pivotal in the development of Google’s AI and software infrastructure, serving as a key figure in Google Brain and as Google’s chief scientist.

Milestones

The Deep Learning Revolution Research

The Neural Network That Found Cats on the Internet

Google's secret project used 16,000 processors to build a neural network that spontaneously learned to recognize cats from unlabeled YouTube videos — proving unsupervised deep learning could discover concepts on its own.

2012