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19851980s
Terry Sejnowski
Computational neuroscientist who co-invented Boltzmann machines and founded the conference that became NeurIPS.
Organizations
Salk Institute for Biological StudiesJohns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of California, San Diego
Major Achievements
- •Co-invented the Boltzmann machine with Geoffrey Hinton (1985), the first neural network able to learn internal representations.
- •Built NETtalk (1987), which learned to pronounce English text and became an early public demonstration of neural learning.
- •Founded the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, now NeurIPS, the field's central venue.
- •Helped establish computational neuroscience as a discipline bridging brain science and machine learning.
Key Papers
- A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines
David H. Ackley, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Terrence J. Sejnowski · Cognitive Science · 1985