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19431940s
Warren McCulloch
Neurophysiologist and cybernetician who co-authored the first mathematical model of a neural network.
Organizations
Yale UniversityUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoMIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored 'A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity' (1943).
- •Demonstrated that theoretical networks of binary neurons could compute any logical proposition.
- •A founding member of the influential Macy Conferences on cybernetics.
Key Papers
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
Warren S. McCulloch, Walter Pitts · Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics · 1943
Videos
Interview with Inventor of Neural Nets Warren McCulloch, neurologist who helped start it way back.
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