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19431940s
Walter Pitts
Self-taught logician who collaborated to create the first artificial neural network model.
Organizations
University of ChicagoMIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
Major Achievements
- •Co-developed the McCulloch-Pitts neuron, the mathematical basis for all subsequent artificial neural networks.
- •Applied Boolean algebra to the behavior of neural networks in his early twenties.
- •Collaborated extensively with prominent cybernetic thinkers like Norbert Wiener.
Key Papers
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
Warren S. McCulloch, Walter Pitts · Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics · 1943