dec 1, 1943 - The first artificial neural network model (Warren McCullough & Walter Pitts)

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Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts create a computational model for neural networks, based on algorithms called threshold logic. Many consider this the first artificial neural network.

Building on ideas in Alan Turing’s “On Computable Numbers”, McCulloch and Pitts's paper provided a way to describe brain functions in abstract terms, and showed that simple elements connected in a neural network can have immense computational power. The paper received little attention until its ideas were applied by John von NeumannOffsite Link, Norbert WienerOffsite Link, and others.[1]

1. McCulloch & Pitts Publish the First Mathematical Model of a Neural Network, accessed 2023-04-18, https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=782

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