Teuvo Kohonen

Teuvo Kohonen ( born July 11, 1934 in Lauritsala ) is a Finnish engineer, primarily through the development of the neural model of self- organizing maps ( sometimes referred to as Kohonen maps) is known.

Kohonen area of ​​research includes the theory of self-organization, associative memory, Neural Networks or Artificial Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of this region of weak AI, ie the non- rule-based artificial intelligence.

2000, the Finnish award academic science he was awarded. He is Emeritus Professor ( emeritusprofessori ) of the Academy of Finland, as formerly by this institution Subsidized, and Helsinki University of Technology, whose influential Neural Networks Research Centre he founded in 1994.

Awards

Teuvo Kohonen is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including:

  • IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Award (1991 )
  • International Neural Network Society Lifetime Achievement Award (1992 )
  • Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1995 )
  • King - Sun Fu Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (1996 )
  • IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Technical Field Award ( 2008)
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of York ( UK), Technical University of Dortmund ( Germany ), Åbo Akademi (Finland )

Publications

  • Teuvo Kohonen: Self-Organizing Maps. 3rd edition Springer, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-540-67921-9
  • Teuvo Kohonen: Self- Organization and Associative Memory, Springer, Berlin, 1983
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