Richard Socher (born 1982 or 1983) is a German-born computer scientist focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) research. He was a researcher for ImageNet, a visual database. In 2014, Socher co-authored GloVe, an unsupervised learning algorithm which embeds words in multi-dimensional vectors.
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Biography
editRichard Socher was born in 1982 or 1983[1] in Dresden, Saxony, in Germany.[2]
In 2009, Fei-Fei Li[3][4] and a team of researchers, including Socher, developed ImageNet.[5] The large visual database is designed for use in visual object recognition software research,[6][7] and hand-annotates images to indicate what objects are pictured and in at least one million of the images, bounding boxes are also provided.[8] ImageNet contains more than 20,000 categories,[9] with a typical category, such as "balloon" or "strawberry", consisting of several hundred images.[10] The database of annotations of third-party image URLs is freely available directly from ImageNet, though the actual images are not owned by ImageNet.[11]
In 2014, Socher completed a PhD at Stanford University.[12] In the same year, three co-authors, including Socher, launched GloVe, an open-source, unsupervised learning algorithm that embeds words in multi-dimensional vectors.[13] GloVe sought to compete with Word2Vec. Socher and co-authors argued that “[f]or the same corpus, vocabulary, window size, and training time, GloVe consistently outperforms word2vec”. Later, Transformer-based models, such as BERT, have improved upon the GloVe model.[14]
In 2021, Socher founded You.com, an artificial intelligence startup. He was formerly the CEO of MetaMind,[15] an AI and software company subsequently acquired by Salesforce.[16][17] Socher has also lectured as an adjunct professor at Stanford.[12]
References
edit- ↑ Chow, A (7 September 2023). "Richard Socher". Time (magazine). Retrieved 30 March 2026.
The source states: "Socher, 40, argues that You.com limits such inaccuracies by incorporating live data from other trusted apps..." As the article was published in September 2023, for Socher to be 40 years old at the time, he must have been born in either 1982 or 1983.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Ehrendoktorwürde für Dresdner KI-Pionier Richard Socher". TU Dresden. 2024-05-02. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ Hempel, Jessi. "Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
- ↑ Payne, L (2025-06-29). "Fei-Fei-Li". Britannica. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Deng, Jia; Dong, Wei; Socher, Richard; Li, Li-Jia; Li, Kai; Fei-Fei, Li (June 2009). "ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database". 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 248–255. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206848. ISBN 978-1-4244-3992-8.
- ↑ Markoff, John (2012-11-19). "Seeking a Better Way to Find Web Images". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
- ↑ Reynolds, M (7 April 2017). "New computer vision challenge wants to teach robots to see in 3D". New Scientist. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
- ↑ "ImageNet". 2020-09-07. Archived from the original on 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ↑ Markoff, John (19 November 2012). "For Web Images, Creating New Technology to Seek and Find". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ↑ "From not working to neural networking". The Economist. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ↑ "ImageNet Overview". ImageNet. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- 1 2 "Richard Socher". GABA Gala. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
- ↑ Pennington, J; Socher, R; Manning, C (2014). "GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
- ↑ von der Mosel, Julian; Trautsch, Alexander; Herbold, Steffen (April 2023). "On the Validity of Pre-Trained Transformers for Natural Language Processing in the Software Engineering Domain". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49 (4): 1487–1507. Bibcode:2023ITSEn..49.1487V. doi:10.1109/TSE.2022.3178469. ISSN 1939-3520.
- ↑ Markoff, John (2016-03-07). "Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
His company MetaMind...was founded in 2014
- ↑ Loizos, Connie (2016-04-04). "Salesforce acquires MetaMind". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
- ↑ Wegner, Jochen (2019-04-17). "Computerlinguistik: Künstliche Intelligenzen überlegen nicht, was sie nach Feierabend tun". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
External links
edit- Richard Socher publications, indexed by Google Scholar