The term 'deep learning' gains currency after 2006
Geoffrey Hinton dated the current popularity of "deep learning" to a 2006 paper on deep belief nets, but the same words had earlier uses, including Rina Dechter's work in 1986.
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Amazon launches Mechanical Turk
Amazon's crowdsourcing marketplace, launched in 2005, lets requesters post small jobs called HITs that workers around the world complete for a fee. ImageNet's builders used it to verify images.
W3C issues RDF and OWL Recommendations
On 10 February 2004 the W3C approved RDF and OWL as Recommendations, making the two Semantic Web specifications official Web standards for machine-readable data.
iRobot launches Roomba
In September 2002 iRobot unveiled Roomba, a home robot vacuum that became the company's first mass-market product and, by one account, created the consumer robot vacuum category.
W3C launches the Web Ontology Working Group
On 1 November 2001 the W3C started the Web Ontology Working Group, which developed OWL and saw it become a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 2004, before closing in May 2004 having completed its charter.
AIBO becomes an Internet-only limited-edition product
On 1 June 1999 Sony opened Internet-only orders for AIBO, its four-legged entertainment robot, at 250,000 yen in Japan and USD 2,500 in the United States; the limited run of 5,000 units sold out in 20 minutes.
Sony announces AIBO, the first home entertainment robot
On May 11, 1999, Sony announced AIBO, a four-legged entertainment robot (model ERS-110) it called the first robot designed for home entertainment, to be sold only over the Internet in limited quantities in Japan and the United States.
Sony rushes out the ERS-111 after AIBO sells out
Sony's AIBO ERS-110 sold out within 20 minutes of reservations opening; when many people asked for one of their own, Sony hurriedly released the ERS-111 half a year later, and its history page groups both under the 1999 model year.
Apple ships the Newton MessagePad
On August 2, 1993, Apple shipped the Newton MessagePad, the first product built on its Newton technology and the company's first handheld computing device. Its troubled launch contributed to John Sculley's replacement as CEO by Michael Spindler.
Apple licenses ParaGraph cursive handwriting recognition for Newton
In June 1993, Apple's Personal Interactive Electronics division signed an agreement with ParaGraph International to use ParaGraph's cursive handwriting recognition technology in the Newton family, with further development planned at ParaGraph's Sunnyvale facility.