Biography:Richard Socher

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Richard Socher (born 1982 or 83)[1] is a computer scientist focusing on AI research. He co-created ImageNet, a visual database, and GloVe, an unsupervised learning algorithm which embeds words in multi-dimensional vectors.

Biography

In 2009, a team of researchers, including Socher, developed ImageNet,[2] a large visual database designed for use in visual object recognition software research.[3][4] The database hand-annotates images to indicate what objects are pictured and in at least one million of the images, bounding boxes are also provided.[5] ImageNet contains more than 20,000 categories,[6] with a typical category, such as "balloon" or "strawberry", consisting of several hundred images.[7] The database of annotations of third-party image URLs is freely available directly from ImageNet, though the actual images are not owned by ImageNet.[8]

In 2014, Socher completed a PhD at Stanford University.[9] In the same year, three co-authors, including Socher, launched GloVe, an open-source, unsupervised learning algorithm that embeds words in multi-dimensional vectors.[10] GloVe sought to compete with Word2Vec. Socher and co-authors argued that “[f]or the same corpus, vocabulary, window size, and training time, GloVe consistently outperforms word2vec”. Later, Transformer-based models, such as BERT, have improved upon the GloVe model.[11]

In 2021, Socher founded You.com, an artificial intelligence startup. He was formerly the CEO of Salesforce,[12] an AI and software company subsequently acquired by Salesforce.[13] Socher has also lectured as an adjunct professor at Stanford.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Chow, A (7 September 2023). "Richard Socher". https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6310642/richard-socher/. "The source states: "Socher, 40, argues that You.com limits such inaccuracies by incorporating live data from other trusted apps..." As the article was published in September 2023, for Socher to be 40 years old at the time, he must have been born in either 1982 or 1983." 
  2. ↑ Deng, Jia; Dong, Wei; Socher, Richard; Li, Li-Jia; Li, Kai; Fei-Fei, Li (June 2009). "ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database". 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 248–255. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206848. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5206848. 
  3. ↑ Markoff, John (2012-11-19). "Seeking a Better Way to Find Web Images" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/science/for-web-images-creating-new-technology-to-seek-and-find.html. 
  4. ↑ Reynolds, M (7 April 2017). "New computer vision challenge wants to teach robots to see in 3D" (in en-US). https://www.newscientist.com/article/2127131-new-computer-vision-challenge-wants-to-teach-robots-to-see-in-3d/. 
  5. ↑ "ImageNet". 2020-09-07. http://image-net.org/about-stats.php. 
  6. ↑ Markoff, John (19 November 2012). "For Web Images, Creating New Technology to Seek and Find". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/science/for-web-images-creating-new-technology-to-seek-and-find.html. 
  7. ↑ "From not working to neural networking". The Economist. 25 June 2016. https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21700756-artificial-intelligence-boom-based-old-idea-modern-twist-not. 
  8. ↑ "ImageNet Overview". ImageNet. https://image-net.org/about.php. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Richard Socher" (in en-US). https://gabagala.org/speaker/richard-socher/. 
  10. ↑ Pennington, J; Socher, R; Manning, C (2014). "GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation". https://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/glove.pdf. 
  11. ↑ von der Mosel, Julian; Trautsch, Alexander; Herbold, Steffen (April 2023). "On the Validity of Pre-Trained Transformers for Natural Language Processing in the Software Engineering Domain". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 49 (4): 1487–1507. doi:10.1109/TSE.2022.3178469. ISSN 1939-3520. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9785808/. 
  12. ↑ Wegner, Jochen (2019-04-17). "Computerlinguistik: Künstliche Intelligenzen überlegen nicht, was sie nach Feierabend tun" (in de-DE). Die Zeit. ISSN 0044-2070. https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2019-04/computerlinguistik-kuenstliche-intelligenz-sprachverarbeitung-richard-socher. 
  13. ↑ Markoff, John (2016-03-07). "Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/technology/taking-baby-steps-toward-software-that-reasons-like-humans.html. 



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