Paul John Werbos (born September 4, 1947) is an American social scientist and machine learning pioneer. He is best known for his 1974 dissertation, which first described the process of training artificial neural networks through backpropagation of errors.[1] He also was a pioneer of recurrent neural networks.[2]
Paul J. Werbos | |
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 Paul Werbos at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Seattle on 8 July 1991. | |
| Born | September 4, 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Backpropagation |
| Awards | IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award (1995) IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social science Machine Learning |
| Thesis | Beyond Regression: New Tools for Prediction and Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Deutsch |
| Other academic advisors | Yu-Chi Ho |
Werbos was one of the original three two-year Presidents of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). In 1995, he was awarded the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award for the discovery of backpropagation and other basic neural network learning frameworks such as Adaptive Dynamic Programming.[3]
Werbos has also written on quantum mechanics and other areas of physics.[4][5] He also has interest in larger questions relating to consciousness, the foundations of physics, and human potential.
He served as program director in the National Science Foundation for several years until 2015.
References
edit- ^ The thesis, and some supplementary information, can be found in his book, Werbos, Paul J. (1994). The Roots of Backpropagation : From Ordered Derivatives to Neural Networks and Political Forecasting. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-59897-6.
- ^ Werbos, P. (1990). "Backpropagation Through Time: What It Does and How to Do It". Proceedings of the IEEE. 78 (10): 1550–1560. doi:10.1109/5.58337. S2CID 18470994.
- ^ "Award Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
- ^ Werbos, Paul J. (2005). "A Conjecture About Fermi–Bose Equivalence". arXiv:hep-th/0505023. Bibcode:2005hep.th....5023W.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Discussion with Paul Werbos on the Nature of Quantum Nonlocality". December 7, 2012.
External links
edit- Home Page
- "Dr. Paul Werbos sees flex-fuels and plug-in hybrids as road to independence". Archived from the original on February 13, 2012.