jan 5, 1951 - SNARC (first NN)

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In 1951, Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built the SNARC, the first artificial neural network, which simulated a rat running a maze. This work was the foundation of Minsky’s Princeton dissertation (1954). Thus one of the founders
and major players in symbolic AI was, initially, more interested in neural nets
and set the stage for their computational implementation.

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