AWhat changed
A structured backpropagation network demonstrated practical handwritten digit recognition.
Scientific scope
The seven-author 1989 paper and its task; not invention of all convolutional networks or later ImageNet-era systems.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This record is limited to the 1989 seven-author paper and its USPS task; it does not collapse earlier convolutional ideas or later large-scale CNN systems into this work.
Contributors
- Yann LeCun · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Bernhard Boser · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- John S. Denker · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Donnie Henderson · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Richard E. Howard · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Wayne Hubbard · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Lawrence D. Jackel · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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