mcculloch-pitts.txt

1943

Warren McCulloch & Walter Pitts

First mathematical model of a neural network

Described neurons as simple logic units in “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity” — the ancestor of every artificial neural network.

The people

  • Warren McCulloch
  • Walter Pitts

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Key work

A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity (opens in new tab)

Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 1943

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