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Limits RegistryNeurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and logician Walter Pitts published 'A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity' in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics in 1943, modelling neurons as binary threshold units and showing that networks of them can compute logical functions. It is the founding paper of artificial neural networks.
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Neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and logician Walter Pitts published 'A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity' in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics in 1943, modelling neurons as binary threshold units and showing that networks of them can compute logical functions. It is the founding paper of artificial neural networks.
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Limits Registry. LR-MCCULLOCH-PITTS-NEURON-MODEL. First mathematical model of an artificial neuron (McCulloch–Pitts). 2026.