Schmidhuber

Schmidhuber is a German-language surname. It is a compound name likely derived from German elements such as Schmied (smith) and Huber (a landowner or farmer), and it is most common in German-speaking regions, including parts of Austria and southern Germany.

The most widely known bearer of the surname is Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 1963), a German computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher. He has served as director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale) in Lugano, and has held research positions at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). Schmidhuber is widely recognized as a pioneer in neural networks and deep learning. In 1997, together with Sepp Hochreiter, he co-invented Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, a key architecture for processing sequential data. His work spans recurrent neural networks, reinforcement learning, and theoretical aspects of machine intelligence. In 2014 he co-founded NNAISENSE, a company focused on applying neural network research to industrial AI problems. Through his research and leadership, Schmidhuber has had a significant influence on the development of modern deep learning and its applications.