Walter Pitts

Inventor, with Warren McCulloch in 1943, of the binary neuron that bears their names, which has strongly influenced basic concepts in AI.

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Significant Publications

McCulloch, Warren S., and Walter Pitts, "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity," Bull. Mathematical Biophysics, Vol. 5, 1943, pp. 115-133.

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Walter Henry Pitts was born April 23, 1923 and died May 14, 1969 (MRW, 2012)

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