McCulloch, Pitts, Neural Networks and the Origins of Modern Computing

How a 'wild-bearded, chain-smoking philosopher-poet' and a homeless, self-taught, boy from Detroit helped lay the foundations of both the modern computer and AI

In today’s post we look at how some of the very earliest work on neural networks helped influence the development of the modern ‘stored program’ computer.

I got attached to this McCulloch and somewhere I wrote, maybe 100 years from now he will be seen as the greatest 20th century philosopher along with Russell and a few people like that. Marvin Minsky

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