Academia
Chicago, Illinois
University of Chicago
The first mathematical model of a neuron was written here — the 1943 paper every neural network in this catalog inherits from.
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Key findings
- 1943
A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts
Modelled a neuron as a threshold logic unit and proved that networks of them can compute any propositional function.
Why it matters here · The origin point of the entire field: the artificial neuron, unchanged in principle, is still the unit inside every model tracked on this site.
y = 1 if Σ wᵢxᵢ ≥ θOriginal paper (1943) →
On the history timeline
Milestones on the 1943 → today timeline credited to this institution.
- 1943A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous ActivityWarren McCulloch & Walter PittsFoundations