Plate IV. Candles in the Archive, 1987–2006

1989— Research

A neural network reads zip codes

Yann LeCun and colleagues train a convolutional network with backpropagation to read handwritten zip codes, later used to process cheques.

Date confidence: high

Sources

• Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition, Neural Computation primary

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