American logician and computational neuroscientist
Walter Pitts
Pitts around 1954 when he was at M.I.T.
Born
Walter Harry Pitts, Jr.
(1923-04-23)23 April 1923
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Died
14 May 1969(1969-05-14) (aged 46)
United States
Scientific career
Fields
Logician
Walter Pitts (right) with Jerome Lettvin, co-author of the cognitive science paper "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain" (1959)
Walter Harry Pitts, Jr. (23 April 1923 – 14 May 1969) was an American logician who worked in the field of computational neuroscience.[1] He proposed landmark theoretical formulations of neural activity and generative processes that influenced diverse fields such as cognitive sciences and psychology, philosophy, neurosciences, computer science, artificial neural networks, cybernetics and artificial intelligence, together with what has come to be known as the generative sciences. He is best remembered for having written along with Warren McCulloch, a seminal paper in scientific history, titled "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943). This paper proposed the first mathematical model of a neural network. The unit of this model, a simple formalized neuron, is still the standard of reference in the field of neural networks. It is often called a McCulloch–Pitts neuron. Prior to that paper, he formalized his ideas regarding the fundamental steps to building a Turing machine in "The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics" in an essay titled "Some observations on the simple neuron circuit".
^Smalheiser, Neil R. "Walter Pitts" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 43, Number 2, Winter 2000, pp. 217–226, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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(1795) for the prediction of planetary movement. Warren McCulloch and WalterPitts (1943) also considered a non-learning computational model for neural...
language models. Simple networks or circuits of connected units, including WalterPitts and Warren McCulloch's neural network for logic and Marvin Minsky's SNARC...
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account of neural activity as being computational was Warren McCullock and WalterPitts in their seminal 1943 paper, A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent...
regarding behavioral patterns of the human mind. Warren McCulloch and WalterPitts, also attendees, had previously worked on designing the first mathematical...
the theory of probability in a new direction. McCulloch, Warren S.; Pitts, Walter (December 1943). "A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous...
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