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Stuart Dreyfus

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Stuart Dreyfus · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1931, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Stuart Dreyfus is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Stuart Dreyfus is an American applied mathematician and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley who, with Richard Bellman, co-authored 'Applied Dynamic Programming,' and who in 1962 gave an early derivation of backpropagation using the chain rule. With his brother, philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, he developed the influential Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. He is included among Jewish figures in the computing and mathematical sciences in Jewish biographical references.

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS