A ‘Brief’ History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
This is the first part of ‘A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning’. In this part, we shall cover the birth of neural nets with the Perceptron in 1958, the AI Winter of the 70s, and neural nets’ return to popularity with backpropagation in 1986.
via http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning/