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Frank Rosenblatt

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Frank Rosenblatt · Technology & Engineering

What

Invented the perceptron, a foundation of neural networks.

When

1928, New Rochelle, New York, USA — 1971, Maryland, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Frank Rosenblatt is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Invented the perceptron, a foundation of neural networks.

How & why

Frank Rosenblatt was a psychologist and computer scientist at Cornell who invented the perceptron, an early trainable artificial neural network that learns to classify patterns and is a direct ancestor of today's deep-learning systems. He built the Mark I Perceptron hardware in 1958. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Invented the perceptron, a foundation of neural networks.

1928

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science