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Harvard University is featured for role in AI history through Backpropagation Discovered (Initially Ignored) in 1974 during First AI Winter.

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Backpropagation Discovered (Initially Ignored)

Paul Werbos described the backpropagation algorithm in his PhD thesis — a method for training multi-layer neural networks by propagating errors backward through the network. However, in the anti-neural-network climate of the 1970s, the work went largely unnoticed.

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