The Perceptron makes headlines

Name: The Perceptron makes headlines
Start: 1958-07-08
End: 1958-07-08

Engraving of Mark I Perceptron, Figure 2 of operator's manual — Engraving after a technical drawing by John C. Hay and Albert E. Murray, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Redrawn and re-inked for iown.si.

The US Navy demonstrates Frank Rosenblatt’s perceptron; The New York Times calls it the “embryo of an electronic computer” expected to walk, talk and see.

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Sources

Perceptron, Wikipedia secondary
The perceptron: A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain, Psychological Review primary

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