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19861980s
David Rumelhart
Psychologist who co-led the Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) research group.
Organizations
UC San DiegoStanford University
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored the landmark 1986 backpropagation paper alongside Hinton and Williams.
- •Co-authored the two-volume PDP books, which became the definitive manifesto of connectionism.
- •Mapped mathematical models of cognition, fundamentally countering symbolic AI theories.
Key Papers
- Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors
David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Ronald J. Williams · Nature · 1986
- Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, Volume 1
David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland · MIT Press · 1986