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   Walter Harry Pitts, Jr. (23 April 1923 – 14 May 1969) was an American logician who worked in the field of computational neuroscience. [1] .

2. nautil.us › the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-worldThe Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic - Nautilus

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   Jan 29, 2015 · McCulloch was a confident, gray-eyed, wild-bearded, chain-smoking philosopher-poet who lived on whiskey and ice cream and never went to bed before 4 a.m. In 1923, the year that Walter Pitts was born, a 25-year-old Warren McCulloch was also digesting the Principia.

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   May 30, 2018 · How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork. Walter Pitts would have become one of the most famous names in computer science - if it hadn’t been for the frogs. By Douglas Heaven ...

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   In this article, we’ll explore the life and work of Walter Pitts and how his contributions have shaped the field of cognitive computing. Who Was Walter Pitts? Walter Pitts was born in 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. Pitts was a child prodigy with a keen interest in mathematics and logic.

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   Who was Walter Pitts?

   • Walter Pitts was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 23, 1923, the son of Walter and Marie (née Welsia). An autodidact, he taught himself logic and mathematics as a child and became a proficient reader in several languages, including Greek and Latin.

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   • It is also about the bonds of friendship, the fragility of the mind, and the limits of logic’s ability to redeem a messy and imperfect world. Walter Pitts (1923-1969): Walter Pitts’ life passed from homeless runaway, to MIT neuroscience pioneer, to withdrawn alcoholic. Estate of Francis Bello / Science Source

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   • In her Nautilus story “ The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic ,” Amanda Gefter explores the brief but bright-burning life of these efforts through characters who would not be out of place in Greek tragedy. Walter Pitts, one of the central figures of the movement, was also one of its youngest and most troubled.

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   Would Walter Pitts have become a famous name in Computer Science?

   • Walter Pitts would have become one of the most famous names in computer science - if it hadn’t been for the frogs IF EVERYTHING had gone as planned, Walter Pitts would surely have become one of the most famous names of 20th-century science.

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   In 1943, neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts wrote a paper on how neurons might work. In order to describe how neurons in the brain might work, they modeled a simple neural network using electrical circuits.

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   Apr 14, 2017 · Neural networks were first proposed in 1944 by Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts, two University of Chicago researchers who moved to MIT in 1952 as founding members of what’s sometimes called the first cognitive science department.

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   Sep 20, 2016 · In her Nautilus story “The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic,” Amanda Gefter explores the brief, bright-burning life of Walter Pitts, one of the central figures of the movement—and one of the most troubled.