Yann LeCun recalls a 1986 meeting with Marvin Minsky over a neural-net experiment

Yann LeCun recalls meeting Marvin Minsky at a reception during his first US conference in June 1986. He says Minsky was surprised by his experiment training a neural network to multiply two binary numbers. In a reply, another researcher recalled attending ICNN ten years later and encountering early work on SVMs, recurrent neural networks and Bayes nets.