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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] .
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.
Pitts wrote a number of articles on neuronal functioning as it relates to computation. Though Pitts is now well-known for his paper treating the nervous system as a digital computer, Pitts wrote extensively about dynamic neural networks and learning by those networks.
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 ...
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.
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.
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Abstract. The classical paper by McCulloch and Pitts on “a logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity” had an enormous impact on the development of brain theory in the broadest sense.
