PERSON
Frank Rosenblatt
Psychologist and computer scientist at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory. Introduced the perceptron in 1957–58 and built the Mark I Perceptron (1960), with software running on an IBM 704 and dedicated hardware. The 1969 book *Perceptrons* by Minsky and Papert showed the limits of his single-layer model, prompting a retreat in the field; the underlying ideas, however, run directly into the multilayer networks that followed. Died in a boating accident in 1971, aged 43.
Profile
- Born
- 1928
- Died
- 1971
- Span
- 43 years
- Appearances
- 01
- Name
- ENFrank RosenblattJAフランク・ローゼンブラット
Appearances
- July 1958The Perceptron Announced — RosenblattFrank Rosenblatt at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory introduced the perceptron, a simple learning device that weighted inputs and applied a threshold. In 1960 the 'Mark I Perceptron', a software implementation on the IBM 704 connected to a 400-pixel sensor array, was demonstrated to the US Navy. It marks the start of the neural-network lineage and remains the structural skeleton beneath the MLP, the convolutional network, and modern deep learning.