How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
Smithsonian Magazine

In the Early Days of Machine Learning, Massive Computers Said George Harrison Was a Woman. A.I. Has Come a Long Way

A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...
Quanta Magazine

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...
IEEE

Algorithms and Barriers in the Symmetric Binary Perceptron Model

Abstract: The binary (or Ising) perceptron is a toy model of a single-layer neural network and can be viewed as a random constraint satisfaction problem with a high degree of connectivity. The model ...
TechCrunch

Perceptron: AI saving whales, steadying gaits and banishing traffic

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron, aims to ...
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Perceptron: AI that solves math problems, translates 200 languages and draws kangaroos

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron, aims to ...