Apple Just Hired This Renowned Artificial Intelligence Expert

Apple continues to bulk up on artificial intelligence and data crunching smarts. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and its computer science school's machine learning department, said Monday via Twitter that he is joining Apple aapl as its director of A.I. research. He will continue to work at Carnegie Mellon while at Apple. Excited about joining Apple as a director of AI research in addition to my work at CMU. Apply to work with my teamhttps://t.co/U2hQl2GdhA Among Salakhutdinov's areas of research is the hot field of deep learning, an A.I. technique in which software systems called neural networks are given vast quantities of data to find patterns within.