Yann LeCun
@ylecun
June 1986. It was my first conference in the US and my first time visiting MIT.
Had a poster on multilayer nets.
I met Marvin Minsky for the first time at the reception hosted by Thinking Machines Inc (the original one that built the Connection Machine). He was surprised that you could train a neural net to compute the product of two binary numbers (I had done the experiment).
I was on my way to the first Connectionist Summer School at CMU.
The Bell Labs folks, who I met the year before, heard I was in the US and invited me for a talk in Holmdel on my way back to Paris.
