Robert Hecht-Nielsen
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Born | Artificial Neural Network | July 18, 1947
Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
Robert Hecht-Nielsen (July 18, 1947 – May 25, 2019) was an American computer scientist, neuroscientist, entrepreneur and professor of
Education and career
Hecht-Nielsen was born in
Hecht-Nielsen co-founded the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks with Bart Kosko in 1987.[6]
Research
Artificial Neural Networks
As a pioneer in the field of
Confabulation Theory
In March, 2005, he held an event to announce "the fundamental mechanism of cognition" dubbed Confabulation Theory, which he believes is a process of confabulation. He posits that all actions and thoughts begin as the "winners" of competitions, where confabulations are tested for cogency based on antecedent support. He presented some mathematical models of the proposed mechanism, and some experimental results where software using this system was able to add several words to a stub of a sentence, keeping that stub coherent and, optionally, maintaining some connection to a full input sentence supplied as context.
For example, given "But the other ..." the program returns "But the other semifinal match between fourth-seeded ...". Given "Japan manufactures many consumer products." for context, and the same three-word stub, it returns "But the other executives included well-known companies ...". Five pages of such examples were given.
He made red, green, and blue-striped medallions to commemorate the event, and had them distributed to the audience along with pamphlets explaining their significance: "This new era, which as yet has no name, will be characterized by the eternal universal freedom from want provided by intelligent machines."
References
- ^ "IN MEMORY OF ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, AN INFLUENTIAL NEUROSCIENTIST, ENTREPRENEUR AND UC SAN DIEGO PROFESSOR".
- ^ "Robert Hecht-Nielsen Obituary - del Mar, California". Legacy.com. 14 June 2019.
- ^ "Interview with Robert Hecht-Nielsen". repository.library.brown.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "Robert Hecht-Nielsen | The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences". thecollege.asu.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "EE 370, 9 April 1998". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen Joins KUITY Corp. Scientific and Technology Advisory Board". 2012-04-17.
- ^ Hecht-Nielsen, Robert (1987). "Kolmogorovs Mapping Neural Network Existence Theorem" (PDF). Proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on Neural Networks. III: 11–13.
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External links
- UCSD site, with video
- UCSD faculty biography
- News coverage of the announcement at the Wayback Machine (archived December 15, 2005)
- May/June 2007 Fair Isaac "Viewpoints" article
- Hecht-Nielsen lecturing at IBM's Almaden institute on YouTube
- In memory of Robert Hecht-Nielsen, an influential neuroscientist, entrepreneur and UC San Diego professor