Bower Award Ceremony 2021: Jrgen Schmidhuber lauds Kunihiko Fukushima

Kunihiko Fukushima was awarded the 2021 Bower Award (including USD 300k) for his enormous contributions to Artificial Neural Networks (NNs) and Deep Learning, particularly his highly influential Convolutional Neural Network architecture. Jürgen Schmidhuber’s laudation at the 2021 Bower Award ceremony of the Franklin Institute discusses Fukushima’s place in the history of NNs and how his discoveries led to breakthroughs in computer vision.