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Warren McCulloch

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The article on formal neurons discusses the modeled neurons treated in A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, published in 1943 by neurophysiologist and surgeon Warren McCulloch and logician and mathematician Walter Pitts (the original gives no explicit name to the neurons under discussion, and later commentators have used various names besides formal neuron). As pioneering published research on artificial neurons and neural networks, it influenced later proposals such as the perceptron (see also connectionism). Its characteristics are the use of the Heaviside step function as its transfer function (activation function), and input and output values restricted to the two binary values 0 and 1. A pivotal figure in artificial intelligence. https://scrapbox.io/files/6821e015ccc2eab093168ed6.png

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