The Gauntlet

foundations

Thomas Bayes

1701–1761 · probability

Pierre-Simon Laplace

1749–1827 · probability

Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777–1855 · mathematics

Charles Babbage

1791–1871 · systems

Ada Lovelace

1815–1852 · systems

George Boole

1815–1864 · mathematics

Florence Nightingale

1820–1910 · statistics

Andrei Markov

1856–1922 · probability

early-stat

Karl Pearson

1857–1936 · statistics

William Sealy Gosset

1876–1937 · statistics

Ronald Fisher

1890–1962 · statistics

Jerzy Neyman

1894–1981 · statistics

midcentury

Norbert Wiener

1894–1964 · computing

Arthur Samuel

1901–1990 · ai

early-stat

Abraham Wald

1902–1950 · statistics

Andrey Kolmogorov

1903–1987 · probability

midcentury

John von Neumann

1903–1957 · computing

Donald Hebb

1904–1985 · ai

Grace Hopper

1906–1992 · systems

Alan Turing

1912–1954 · computing

Paul Erdos

1913–1996 · mathematics

George Dantzig

1914–2005 · optimization

early-stat

John Tukey

1915–2000 · statistics

Kiyosi Ito

1915–2008 · probability

midcentury

Richard Hamming

1915–1998 · information

Claude Shannon

1916–2001 · information

Herbert Simon

1916–2001 · ai

stat-learning

David Blackwell

1919–2010 · statistics

early-stat

George Box

1919–2013 · statistics

C.R. Rao

1920–2023 · statistics

midcentury

Richard Bellman

1920–1984 · optimization

Lotfi Zadeh

1921–2017 · ai

Walter Pitts

1923–1969 · ai

early-stat

David Cox

1924–2022 · statistics

midcentury

Allen Newell

1927–1992 · ai

stat-learning

Hirotugu Akaike

1927–2009 · statistics

midcentury

John McCarthy

1927–2011 · ai

Marvin Minsky

1927–2016 · ai

Frank Rosenblatt

1928–1971 · ai

John Nash

1928–2015 · mathematics

stat-learning

Leo Breiman

1928–2005 · ml

midcentury

Noam Chomsky

b. 1928 · nlp

theory

Edsger Dijkstra

1930–2002 · theory

midcentury

Rudolf Kalman

1930–2016 · optimization

systems

Frances Allen

1932–2020 · systems

midcentury

Frederick Jelinek

1932–2010 · nlp

deep-modern

John Hopfield

b. 1933 · ai

stat-learning

Grace Wahba

b. 1934 · statistics

theory

Tony Hoare

b. 1934 · theory

midcentury

Andrew Viterbi

b. 1935 · information

ai-classic

Karen Sparck Jones

1935–2007 · nlp

theory

Richard Karp

b. 1935 · theory

stat-learning

Judea Pearl

b. 1936 · ai

deep-modern

Kunihiko Fukushima

b. 1936 · vision

systems

Margaret Hamilton

b. 1936 · systems

deep-modern

Shun'ichi Amari

b. 1936 · ml

stat-learning

Vladimir Vapnik

b. 1936 · ml

ai-classic

Raj Reddy

b. 1937 · ai

stat-learning

Alexey Chervonenkis

1938–2014 · ml

Bradley Efron

b. 1938 · statistics

theory

Donald Knuth

b. 1938 · theory

Manuel Blum

b. 1938 · theory

midcentury

Thomas Cover

1938–2012 · information

systems

Barbara Liskov

b. 1939 · systems

stat-learning

Jerome Friedman

b. 1939 · ml

theory

Stephen Cook

b. 1939 · theory

stat-learning

Peter Bickel

b. 1940 · statistics

systems

Dennis Ritchie

1941–2011 · systems

Leslie Lamport

b. 1941 · systems

stat-learning

Dimitri Bertsekas

b. 1942 · optimization

Donald Rubin

b. 1943 · statistics

systems

Ken Thompson

b. 1943 · systems

midcentury

David Marr

1945–1980 · vision

ai-classic

Takeo Kanade

b. 1945 · vision

theory

Andrew Yao

b. 1946 · theory

deep-modern

Geoffrey Hinton

b. 1947 · ml

Paul Werbos

b. 1947 · ml

rl

Richard Sutton

b. 1947 · rl

Andrew Barto

b. 1948 · rl

theory

Leslie Valiant

b. 1949 · theory

ai-classic

Tom Mitchell

b. 1951 · ml

stat-learning

Trevor Hastie

b. 1953 · ml

Ingrid Daubechies

b. 1954 · mathematics

ai-classic

Rodney Brooks

b. 1954 · robotics

systems

Tim Berners-Lee

b. 1955 · systems

Guido van Rossum

b. 1956 · systems

stat-learning

Michael I. Jordan

b. 1956 · ml

ai-classic

Peter Norvig

b. 1956 · ai

stat-learning

Robert Tibshirani

b. 1956 · ml

David Donoho

b. 1957 · statistics

John Lafferty

b. 1957 · ml

ai-classic

Cynthia Dwork

b. 1958 · privacy

deep-modern

Stephen Boyd

b. 1958 · optimization

stat-learning

Susan Murphy

b. 1958 · statistics

rl

Chris Watkins

b. 1959 · rl

stat-learning

Larry Wasserman

b. 1959 · statistics

deep-modern

Jitendra Malik

b. 1960 · vision

Yann LeCun

b. 1960 · ml

stat-learning

Corinna Cortes

b. 1961 · ml

Yoav Freund

b. 1961 · ml

Bin Yu

b. 1962 · statistics

ai-classic

Stuart Russell

b. 1962 · ai

deep-modern

Jurgen Schmidhuber

b. 1963 · ml

stat-learning

Robert Schapire

b. 1963 · ml

deep-modern

Ion Stoica

b. 1964 · systems

Yoshua Bengio

b. 1964 · ml

stat-learning

Andrew Gelman

b. 1965 · statistics

deep-modern

Christopher Manning

b. 1965 · nlp

Leon Bottou

b. 1965 · optimization

stat-learning

Robert Nowak

b. 1965 · ml

Peter Bartlett

b. 1966 · ml

deep-modern

David MacKay

1967–2016 · ml

stat-learning

Partha Niyogi

1967–2010 · ml

deep-modern

Sepp Hochreiter

b. 1967 · ml

stat-learning

Bernhard Scholkopf

b. 1968 · ml

theory

Cristopher Moore

b. 1968 · theory

deep-modern

Daphne Koller

b. 1968 · ml

systems

Jeff Dean

b. 1968 · systems

Linus Torvalds

b. 1969 · systems

stat-learning

Emmanuel Candes

b. 1970 · statistics

Sayan Mukherjee

b. 1970 · ml

deep-modern

Jon Kleinberg

b. 1971 · theory

Risi Kondor

b. 1971 · ml

Cathy O'Neil

b. 1972 · ethics

Josh Tenenbaum

b. 1972 · ai

stat-learning

Michael Mahoney

b. 1972 · ml

Martin Wainwright

b. 1973 · statistics

deep-modern

Alex Smola

b. 1974 · ml

stat-learning

Cosma Shalizi

b. 1974 · statistics

Nathan Srebro

b. 1974 · ml

deep-modern

Rene Vidal

b. 1974 · vision

Carlos Guestrin

b. 1975 · ml

Dawn Song

b. 1975 · privacy

Lek-Heng Lim

b. 1975 · mathematics

Terence Tao

b. 1975 · mathematics

stat-learning

David Blei

b. 1976 · ml

rl

David Silver

b. 1976 · rl

deep-modern

Demis Hassabis

b. 1976 · ai

Raquel Urtasun

b. 1976 · vision

Pieter Abbeel

b. 1977 · robotics

Jure Leskovec

b. 1978 · ml

Aaron Clauset

b. 1979 · ml

Ross Girshick

b. 1981 · vision

Anima Anandkumar

b. 1983 · ml

stat-learning

Rina Foygel Barber

b. 1983 · statistics

deep-modern

Timnit Gebru

b. 1983 · ethics

Alec Radford

b. 1986 · ml

Ashish Vaswani

b. 1986 · nlp

Ilya Sutskever

b. 1986 · ml

Ian Goodfellow

b. 1987 · ml

Rediet Abebe

b. 1991 · ethics