Frank Rosenblatt

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Frank Rosenblatt
Gravestone of Frank Rosenblatt, Brooktondale, NY, USA.

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

Life

Rosenblatt developed the perceptron in 1957 . He continued his development of concept in 1960 at Cornell University in the computer Mark I to the first computer by trial and error (Engl. Trial and error ) capable of learning was.

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

In Marvin Minsky , Rosenblatt had a bitter adversary who wrote many writings, some of which were polemical and personally attacking Rosenblatt, against the concept of the perceptron. However, Rosenblatt was not provoked by this. In 1969, Minsky published the book Perceptrons , in which he mathematically proved that the concept of the perceptron is not capable of mapping one of the elementary logical gates ( XOR ). However, it turned out some time later that XOR can very easily be mapped with a multi-layer perceptron.

Rosenblatt could no longer react to Minsky's book, as he died in a boat accident after it was published. Ironically, Minsky turned himself to neural networks in the 1980s , and his research was based on Rosenblatt's findings.

Fonts

  • "The perceptron. A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain ". In: Psychological Reviews , 65 (1958): pp. 386-408.
  • STUDIES OF MEMORY TRANSFER IN RATS , Belvoir Defense Technical Information Center, 1967
  • COLLECTED TECHNICAL PAPERS. VOLUME III , Belvoir Defense Technical Information Center, 1968

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