Perceptrons : an introduction to computational geometry / Marvin Minsky and Seymour A. Papert ; foreword by Léon Bottou.
2017
Q327 .M55 2017
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Title
Perceptrons : an introduction to computational geometry / Marvin Minsky and Seymour A. Papert ; foreword by Léon Bottou.
Edition
[2017 edition].
ISBN
9780262343930
0262343932
0262343932
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
Q327 .M55 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
006.3
Summary
The first systematic study of parallelism in computation by two pioneers in the field.Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by Leon BottouIn 1969, ten years after the discovery of the perceptron--which showed that a machine could be taught to perform certain tasks using examples--Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons, their analysis of the computational capabilities of perceptrons for specific tasks. As Leon Bottou writes in his foreword to this edition, "Their rigorous work and brilliant technique does not make the perceptron look very good." Perhaps as a result, research turned away from the perceptron. Then the pendulum swung back, and machine learning became the fastest-growing field in computer science. Minsky and Papert's insistence on its theoretical foundations is newly relevant.Perceptrons--the first systematic study of parallelism in computation--marked a historic turn in artificial intelligence, returning to the idea that intelligence might emerge from the activity of networks of neuron-like entities. Minsky and Papert provided mathematical analysis that showed the limitations of a class of computing machines that could be considered as models of the brain. Minsky and Papert added a new chapter in 1987 in which they discuss the state of parallel computers, and note a central theoretical challenge: reaching a deeper understanding of how "objects" or "agents" with individuality can emerge in a network. Progress in this area would link connectionism with what the authors have called "society theories of mind."
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"Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by Léon Bottou."
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