1989, in 3 pieces

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December 1

Yann LeCun et al. (AT&T Bell Labs)
Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition

An early case of combining weight sharing with backpropagation to apply a neural network to a real-world task

Year only 2

Kurt Hornik, Maxwell Stinchcombe, Halbert White
Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators

Together with Cybenko, established the foundation for the approximation capability of multilayer feedforward neural networks

George Cybenko
Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function

Proved that a single hidden layer can approximate any continuous function, providing a theoretical basis for expressive power