While we were all watching connectionists, the ultimate blows were landed by Sara Solla on comp-neuro:
"Stephen,
You have been complaining about not getting enough credit since I first met
you in the mid 1980s...."
https://lists.cnsorg.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/E2X3M276HWMGRDPIGCFTGKERVBDKQ3X7/
"Stephen,
You have been complaining about not getting enough credit since I first met
you in the mid 1980s...."
https://lists.cnsorg.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/E2X3M276HWMGRDPIGCFTGKERVBDKQ3X7/
Comments
Why can't people just be happy for others? Everyone wants these individual prizes to exist, but then get upset if they don't get one?
These are recognitions of a whole field, not just the individuals.
(Also, I don't think these individual prizes should exist anymore...)
I’d say this is what really sets Hinton and Grossberg apart, not # citations.
Not trying to be black and white here...
I’d love to hear their first-hand experience working with him. My PhD supervisor (Chris Pack) also did his PhD with him, and he had some interesting stories to tell.
*I’m sure I know others but hard to keep track of everyone’s branch in the family tree
But, Grossberg's social impact on the field *pale's* in comparison to Geoff's. I'm here at a conference at Columbia on Neuro-AI and I can count four major people who worked closely with Geoff in the past. It's like this at every workshop/conference, truly.
Although recently we've had a few differences about anywhere amygdala function and evolution 😅