I wonder if some folks here might not know that this is by the coauthor of McCulloch and Pitts (1943) A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity, which started the study of Neural Nets and was also Kleene's inspiration for starting the study of Finite State machines.
For anyone interested in the history of computing and cybernetics, McCulloch absolutely is an essential figure within. The field would look significantly different without the butterfly effect the man had; Minsky would have had an entirely different trajectory, for example.
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[ 7.6 ms ] story [ 81.7 ms ] threadI wonder if some folks here might not know that this is by the coauthor of McCulloch and Pitts (1943) A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity, which started the study of Neural Nets and was also Kleene's inspiration for starting the study of Finite State machines.
(And, forgive me, I can't resist linking to a wonderful article about Pitts, http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-r...)