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Noam Shazeer

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Noam Shazeer · Technology & Engineering

What

Co-invented the Transformer neural-network architecture.

When

1976, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Noam Shazeer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-invented the Transformer neural-network architecture.

How & why

Noam Shazeer is a computer scientist and one of the lead authors of the 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need', which introduced the Transformer neural-network architecture underpinning modern large language models. A gold medalist at the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad, he later co-founded Character.AI. He is an Orthodox Jew; his grandparents escaped the Holocaust. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Contributions & Sources

Co-invented the Transformer neural-network architecture.

1976

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science