Biography:Paul Werbos

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Short description: American scientist and machine learning expert
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 (1947-09-04) September 4, 1947 (age 76)
NationalityUnited States
Alma materHarvard University
Known forBackpropagation
AwardsIEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award (1995)
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsSocial science
Machine Learning
ThesisBeyond Regression: New Tools for Prediction and Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (1974)
Doctoral advisorKarl Deutsch
Other academic advisorsYu-Chi Ho

Paul John Werbos (born 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]

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

  1. 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. 
  2. 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. https://zenodo.org/record/1262035. 
  3. "Award Recipients | IEEE Computational Intelligence Society" (in en-gb). http://cis.ieee.org/award-recipients.html. 
  4. Werbos, Paul J. (2005). A Conjecture About Fermi–Bose Equivalence. Bibcode2005hep.th....5023W. 
  5. "Discussion with Paul Werbos on the Nature of Quantum Nonlocality". December 7, 2012. http://stardrive.org/stardrive/index.php/all-blog-articles/8986-. 

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