Warren S. McCulloch

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Warren S. McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician best known as a founder of computational neuroscience and for co-authoring the seminal 1943 paper that introduced the first mathematical model of artificial neural networks.

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instanceOf American scientist
computational neuroscientist
cybernetician
human
neurophysiologist
authorOf A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity NERFINISHED
birthDate 1898-11-16
birthPlace Orange, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED
coAuthor Walter Pitts NERFINISHED
coAuthorOf A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1969-09-24
educatedAt Columbia University
Haverford College NERFINISHED
Yale University
familyName McCulloch NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork artificial neural networks
computational neuroscience
cybernetics
neurophysiology
philosophy of mind
gender male
givenName Warren NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline logic
systems theory
influenced artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
neural network research
influencedBy John von Neumann NERFINISHED
Norbert Wiener NERFINISHED
knownFor McCulloch–Pitts neuron model NERFINISHED
founding computational neuroscience
mathematical model of artificial neural networks
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Macy Conferences on Cybernetics NERFINISHED
name Warren Sturgis McCulloch NERFINISHED
notableWork McCulloch–Pitts neuron NERFINISHED
occupation cybernetician
neurophysiologist
university teacher
partOf first generation of cybernetics researchers
publicationYear 1943
theory binary threshold neuron model
logical calculus of nervous activity NERFINISHED
workedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology NERFINISHED
Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT NERFINISHED

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