A large-scale work by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of artificial intelligence research, Terrence Sejnowski, will guide the reader through all the key milestones in the development of this technology. Sejnowski's work spans the 60-year period during which machine learning has moved from theoretical research to applied science. As a neuroscientist and head of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory at the Salk Institute (USA), as well as a professor at the University of California, San Diego, the author began his research neural networks back in the 80s, before the “revolution” of deep learning, which promoted artificial intelligence to the rank of the most promising technologies of our time. Today, Professor Sejnowski remains one of the world’s most sought-after experts in the field of AI - he is the author of the most popular machine learning course on Coursera, member of the US National Academy of Sciences and winner of many prestigious awards for achievements in the field of neurobiology.