University of Chicago

1 milestone · 1943

University of Chicago is featured for role in AI history through First Mathematical Model of Neural Networks in 1943 during Theoretical Foundations.

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Chronology

Artificial neural network diagram representing McCulloch-Pitts neuron model
Research

First Mathematical Model of Neural Networks

McCulloch and Pitts published 'A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity,' creating the first mathematical model of an artificial neuron. They showed that simple binary neurons connected in networks could, in principle, compute any function computable by a Turing machine.

Warren McCullochWalter PittsUniversity of Chicago

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