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McColloch and Pitts and are generally credited with the theoretical foundations of artificial neurons in the 40s, and around that time Hebb was doing some pione
by briga 9y ago
McColloch and Pitts and are generally credited with the theoretical foundations of artificial neurons in the 40s, and around that time Hebb was doing some pioneering work on activation potentials, but traces of the idea can be found as far back as James's Principles of Psychology.
- jeffwass 9y agoThanks, but I mean specifically the term "neural net". Saw some older papers mention artificial neutrons but interested when they used the term 'net'
- testvox 9y agoThe primary paper by McColloch and Pitts is "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943) it doesn't use exactly the term "neural net" but it mentions nets, networks, and "nervous nets". But it seems like the term "nervous net" goes back to the 19th century as a description of primitive neural arrangements in biology.