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The research project this is part of was discussed almost 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779647

There's lots of other results for 'deep networks' in the search too (sorting by date, they appear quite consistently, many of them don't get many votes though).

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I think it went 'mainstream' around 2007, with Hinton's TechTalk at Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M And even being pretty far from the ML/AI community at the time, I remember playing with Bengio's GPU based Theano Deep Learning Tutorial at around 2008/09. What had happened right now is just that it had finally started beating SVMs consistently and is fast enough to be used for practical purposes.

Hinton's Coursera class a couple years ago pulled me in. I wish there were more Coursera classes at that level.

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