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aigyfkkq t1_j3hlxmt wrote

Reply to comment by gbfar in [D] What is the most complete reference on the history of neural networks? by gbfar

Talking Nets from MIT press has some nice interviews with pre-90s neural net researchers. Also iirc there’s some commentary on those early papers in the Neurocomputing 1 and 2 collections, also from MIT

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clayhead_ai t1_j3htcfd wrote

This is such a fascinating book! Especially the parts about Walter Pitts. He was a genius from a young age, IIRC he was sending letters to Bertrand Russell correcting his proofs when he was just a teenager. Very tragic story though. Severe mental illness kept him from having the career he deserved. Someone should make a movie about him.

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chief167 t1_j3qeduk wrote

> there’s some commentary on those early papers in the Neurocomputing 1 and 2 collections

could you link or give a doi or something?

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viv1a t1_j3yfwu4 wrote

You can find it on amazon for cheap: https://www.amazon.com/Neurocomputing-Foundations-Research-James-Anderson/dp/0262510480

I second that it's a great book! it covers stuff until the late 80s and has very nice commentary on various foundational papers until then (McCullough and Pitts, Hebb, the Perceptron, Adaline, Neocognitron as well as Hopfield's works). The earliest paper it includes is actually from 1890 (!) and is by the psychologist William James who framed the mind as a kind of input-output machine.

There is a version out there with a cool cover depicting a neuron on a circuit board.

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