Nicholas Rashevsky
(1899-1972)
In the early 1930s, Rashevsky developed the first logical/mathematical model of neural networks. This was paraphrased in a Boolean context by his student
Walter Pitts together with
Warren McCulloch, in an article published in Rashevsky's
Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics in 1943 entitled "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity."
The Pitts-McCulloch article subsequently became extremely influential for research on neural networks, including the model "Pitts-McCulloch neuron." Their work became the basis of cybernetics, modeling the brain as a digital computer, and artificial intelligence.
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