{"id":646662,"date":"2013-03-13T19:49:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=373125"},"modified":"2013-03-13T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:49:24","slug":"google-acquires-neural-network-startup-to-improve-speech-and-image-recognition-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646662","title":{"rendered":"Google acquires neural network startup to improve speech and image recognition software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/13\/google-speech-recognition-dnnresearch-373125\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/google-sign-9.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=434&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Speech Recognition\" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) has acquired a startup from the University of Toronto&#8217;s computer science department. The &#8220;ground-breaking&#8221; startup called\u00a0DNNresearch Inc was founded by University professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students in 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> was interested in the company&#8217;s research on deep neural networks, which will assist the company in improving its speech and image recognition software. Professor Hinton will now split his time between his work at the University and continuing his research with Google. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The University of Toronto&#8217;s press release follows below. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/13\/google-speech-recognition-dnnresearch-373125\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/vHNnZmJjLiM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google (GOOG) has acquired a startup from the University of Toronto&#8217;s computer science department. The &#8220;ground-breaking&#8221; startup called\u00a0DNNresearch Inc was founded by University professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students in 2012. Google was interested in the company&#8217;s research on deep neural networks, which will assist the company in improving its speech and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}