Teuvo Kohonen
Teuvo Kalevi Kohonen (born July 11, 1934 in Lauritsala ) is a Finnish engineer who was best known for developing the neural model of Self-Organizing Maps (sometimes also referred to as Kohonen maps ).
Kohonen's research area includes the theory of self-organization , associative memory , artificial neural networks and pattern recognition .
He is considered to be one of the pioneers in this area of weak AI , i.e. non-rule-based artificial intelligence .
In 2000 he was awarded the Finnish Akateemikko ( Academic ) award. He is professor emeritus (emeritusprofessori) of the Academy of Finland , as a former sponsor of this institution, and of the Technical University of Helsinki , whose influential Neural Networks Research Center he founded in 1994 .
Awards
Teuvo Kohonen has received many awards and prizes, including a .:
- IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Award ( 1991 )
- International Neural Network Society Lifetime Achievement Award ( 1992 )
- Technical Achievement Award from 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 doctorate from the University of York ( Great Britain ), Technical University Dortmund ( Germany ), Åbo Akademi ( Finland )
Publications
- Teuvo Kohonen: Self-Organizing Maps (= Springer Series in Information Sciences. 30). Springer, Berlin et al. 1995, ISBN 3-540-58600-8 (3rd edition. Ibid 2001, ISBN 3-540-67921-9 ).
- Self-Organization and Associative Memory (= Springer Series in Information Sciences. 8). Springer, Berlin et al. 1984, ISBN 3-540-12165-X .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohonen, Teuvo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohonen, Teuvo Kalevi (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish computer scientist, inventor of self-organizing maps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauritsala |