McCulloch & Pitts model the neuron as logic

Name: McCulloch & Pitts model the neuron as logic
Start: 1943
End: 1943

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Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts publish “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity”, describing networks of idealised threshold neurons that can compute logical functions.

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A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics primary

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