Birth Name:

Walter Pitts

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Apr 23, 1923

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Age:

101

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

2°

Tau

31'

About Walter Pitts

Walter Harry Pitts, Jr. (23 April 1923 – 14 May 1969) was a logician who worked in the field of computational neuroscience. He proposed landmark theoretical formulations of neural activity and generative processes that influenced diverse fields such as cognitive sciences and psychology, philosophy, neurosciences, computer science, artificial neural networks, cybernetics and artificial intelligence, together with what has come to be known as the generative sciences. He is best remembered for having written along with Warren McCulloch, a seminal paper in scientific history, titled "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943). This paper proposed the first mathematical model of a neural network. The unit of this model, a simple formalized neuron, is still the standard of reference in the field of neural networks. It is often called a McCulloch–Pitts neuron. Prior to that paper, he formalized his ideas regarding the fundamental steps to building a Turing machine in "The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics" in an essay titled "Some observations on the simple neuron circuit".

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• "Walter Pitts", website of Professor Charles Wallis, Department of Cognitive Science, California State University at Long Beach, accessed 30 Jan. 2009 (archived 2009)

• "The Man who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic", Nautilus Magazine issue 21, 5 February 2015

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Walter Pitts: Sun 2 Taurus, Moon 26 Cancer, Mercury 18 Taurus, Venus 26 Pisces, Mars 5 Gemini, Jupiter 15 Scorpio, Saturn 15 Libra, Uranus 16 Pisces, Neptune 15 Leo, Pluto 9 Cancer, Mercury Opposition Jupiter, Mercury Quincunx Saturn, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Semi Square Uranus, Mercury Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Semi Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Trine Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Saturn Quincunx Uranus, Saturn Sextile Neptune, Uranus Quincunx Neptune

Categories related to Walter Pitts: 1969 deaths, April 23 births, American psychologists, Cognitive scientists, American logicians, Cognitive neuroscientists, 20th-century psychologists, 1923 births, History of artificial intelligence, Philosophers from Michigan

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