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May 02, 1956 Heidelberg, Baden Württemberg, Germany 68 years old
computer scientist
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About Alex Waibel
- Alexander "Alex" Waibel (born 2 May 1956 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
- Waibel's research interests focus on speech recognition and translation and human communication signals and systems.
- Waibel is known for the time delay neural network (TDNN), which he developed.
- It is the first convolutional neural network (CNN) trained by gradient descent, using the backpropagation algorithm.
- Alex Waibel introduced the TDNN 1987 at ATR in Japan. BBC summed up Alex Waibel's motivation: "We don’t want to look things up in dictionaries – so I wanted to build a machine to translate speech."
