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Google Acquires DNNresearch For Image, Voice Expertise
- University of Toronto, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:15 PM
Google acquired research firm DNNresearch, a 2012 startup from the University of Toronto in an effort to improve context-based recognition of voices and imagery. The company, founded by Professor Geoffrey Hinton and his two graduate students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, offers expertise in neural networks and computerized learning. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
