AT
Founder
1912–1954 · Cambridge, UK

Alan Turing

Father of Computing & AI

Conceived the universal machine, cracked Enigma, and asked the defining question: can machines think?

Computability Turing Test Cryptography
GH
Revival
1947– · London → Toronto

Geoffrey Hinton

Godfather of Deep Learning

Co-developed backpropagation and pioneered deep neural networks that define modern AI.

Backprop Boltzmann Machines Turing Award
YL
Revival
1960– · Paris → New York

Yann LeCun

Father of Convolutional Networks

Invented LeNet and CNNs — the architecture that powers every camera, medical scan, and autonomous car today.

CNNs Computer Vision Meta AI
YB
Revival
1964– · Paris → Montréal

Yoshua Bengio

Pioneer of Deep Learning & NLP

Advanced word embeddings, attention mechanisms, and generative models. Tireless advocate for AI safety and ethics.

NLP Attention Generative Models
AN
Modern
1976– · London → Silicon Valley

Andrew Ng

AI Democratizer & Educator

Co-founded Google Brain, Coursera's ML courses, and made deep learning accessible to millions worldwide.

Education Google Brain MLOps
DH
Modern
1984– · Bristol → London

Demis Hassabis

CEO of DeepMind, AlphaGo Creator

Built the AI that mastered Go, fold proteins (AlphaFold), and redefined what machines can achieve in science.

AlphaGo AlphaFold Reinforcement Learning
JM
Founder
1927–2011 · Boston → Stanford

John McCarthy

Coined the Term "Artificial Intelligence"

Organized the Dartmouth Conference, invented Lisp, and launched the field of AI as a formal discipline.

Lisp Dartmouth 1956 Formal AI
IJ
Modern
1986– · Tehran → Stanford

Ian Goodfellow

Inventor of GANs

Created Generative Adversarial Networks in a single evening — one of the most impactful ideas in modern AI.

GANs Generative AI Deep Learning