MIT技术评论(MIT Technology Review)评选出2013突破性科学技术。其中深度学习位居榜首，分别是：

1. 深度学习（Deep Learning）

2. 时态社交媒体（Temporary Social Media）

3. 育前DNA测序（ Prenatal DNA Sequencing）

4. 基于3D打印的制造业（Additive Manufacturing or 3D Printing）

5. 蓝领机器人（Baxter: The Blue-Collar Robot）

6. 记忆移植（Memory Implants）

7. 智能手表（Smart Watches）

8. 超高效太阳能（Ultra-Efficient Solar Power）

9. 廉价手机大数据（Big Data from Cheap Phones）

10. 超级电网（Supergrids）

      可见深度学习在学术界的地位,尤其是其在人脸识别、语音识别、自然语言理解等技术应用领域，好像存在一种通用的深度框架，可统一处理语音、图像和语言的的深度模型。以下是《MIT技术评论》原文

Our definition of a breakthrough is simple: an advance that gives people powerful new ways to use technology. It could be an intuitive design that provides a useful interface (see “Smart Watches”) or experimental devices that could allow people who have suffered brain damage to once again form memories (“Memory Implants”). Some could be key to sustainable economic growth (“Additive Manufacturing” and “Supergrids”), while others could change how we communicate (“Temporary Social Media”) or think about the unborn (“Prenatal DNA Sequencing”). Some are brilliant feats of engineering (“Baxter”). Others stem from attempts to rethink longstanding problems in their fields (“Deep Learning” and “Ultra-Efficient Solar Power”). As a whole, we intend this annual list not only to tell you which technologies you need to know about, but also to celebrate the creativity that produced them.