• Warren Sturgis McCulloch (November 16, 1898 – September 24, 1969) was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician known for his work on the foundation...
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    generative sciences. He is best remembered for having written along with Warren McCulloch, a seminal paper in scientific history, titled " A Logical Calculus...
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    Threshold Logic Unit (TLU), or Linear Threshold Unit, first proposed by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943. The model was specifically targeted as a...
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  • invention of the perceptron, a simple artificial neural network, by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943, followed by the implementation of one in...
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  • weights with the feature vector. The perceptron was invented in 1943 by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. The first hardware implementation was Mark I Perceptron...
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  • new developments in cybernetics as an interdisciplinary field (with Warren McCulloch as first elected president of the ASC). The society was spearheaded...
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    In search of the simplest models to capture finite-state machines, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts were among the first researchers to introduce a concept...
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  • McCulloch is a Scottish surname, commonly found in Galloway, and usually associated with Clan MacCulloch. It may be etymologically related to the Irish...
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  • continuous activation functions such as sigmoid or ReLU. In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed the binary artificial neuron as a logical...
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  • heterarchy was first employed in a modern context by cybernetician Warren McCulloch in 1945. As Carole L. Crumley has summarised, "[h]e examined alternative...
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  • Carlyla Jacobsen, Lawrence Kubie, Jules Masserman, Margaret Mead, Warren McCulloch, Bela Mittelmann, David Rapoport, Arturo Rosenblueth, Donald Sheehan...
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    cybernetics". He came to the United States, and stayed after meeting with Warren Sturgis McCulloch, where he received funding from The Pentagon to establish the Biological...
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    servomechanism that controlled at discrete points in time. He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that Einstein considered The Nature of Explanation...
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  • development of the interdisciplinary study of philosophy and neurology. Warren McCulloch regarded him as the “great philosophic student of psychiatry.” Abraham...
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    the project. During undergraduate years, he was inspired by the 1943 Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts paper on artificial neurons, and decided to build...
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  • A psychon was a minimal unit of psychic activity proposed by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity"...
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    represents a backpropagation of the activation function. In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed the binary artificial neuron as a logical...
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  • defines mental states by what they do rather than what they're made of. Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts (1943) were the first to suggest that neural activity...
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    "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. The foundations of cybernetics were then developed...
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    are seen to be countless types of information processing possible. Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts showed in 1943 that even artificial neural networks...
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  • learning technologies as well, including logician Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch, who proposed the early mathematical models of neural networks to come...
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  • Scotland, Andrew McCulloch was educated at Bedford School and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. McCulloch's film credits include...
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    Science Citation Index. He wrote it along with Humberto Maturana, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, and in the paper they gave special thanks and mention...
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    Following the Second World War, at a 1946 conference on cybernetics, Warren McCulloch gathered a team of mathematicians, computer engineers, physiologists...
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  • Robert L. Flood, Allenna Leonard, Radhika Nagpal, Fritjof Capra, Warren McCulloch, Kathleen Carley, Michael C. Jackson, Katia Sycara, and Edgar Morin...
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  • 99999999906 in decimal notation. Von Neumann credits this model to Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous...
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    proposal in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch analyzed networks of idealized artificial neurons and showed how they...
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  • Markov chain—extended the theory of probability in a new direction. McCulloch, Warren S.; Pitts, Walter (December 1943). "A logical calculus of the ideas...
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    connectionist computing does not separate memory and processing. Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts (1943) considered a non-learning computational model...
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  • self-organized endurance and stability (e.g. Nyquist stability criterion). Warren McCulloch proposed "Redundancy of Potential Command" as characteristic of the...
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