Frank Rosenblatt

Frank Rosenblatt ( born July 11, 1928 in New York City, † 1971) was an American psychologist and computer scientist.

Life

Rosenblatt developed in 1957 the concept of the Perceptron. He put the concept developed by him in 1960 at Cornell University in the Computer Mark I, who was the first computer by trial and error (English trial and error ) to learn.

In 1962 Rosenblatt published the book "Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms ," based on his, among students very popular lecture " Theory of Brain Mechanisms " and his previous research results summarized.

In Marvin Minsky Rosenblatt had a fierce adversary, who wrote many partly polemical and Rosenblatt personally attacking writings against the concept of the Perceptron. Rosenblatt, however, it was not to be provoked. In 1969, Minsky published the book " Perceptrons ", in which he proved mathematically that the concept of the perceptron is not able to reproduce the XOR. Later algorithms of neural networks, such as based on the perceptron backpropagation network, but corrected this deficit.

Rosenblatt could not respond to the book Minsky, since he was killed in a boating accident shortly before its publication. Ironically, Minsky turned in the 1980s to even neural networks and its research based on the results of Rosenblatt.

Writings

  • "The perceptron. A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain ". In: Psychological Reviews, 65 ( 1958): pp. 386-408.
  • Psychologist
  • Computer scientist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1928
  • Died in 1971
  • Man
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