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Paul Werbos

American scientist and machine learning expert

Field	Value
name	Paul Werbos
image	PaulWerbos-IJCNNseattle1991-07-08.jpg
caption	Paul Werbos at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Seattle on 8 July 1991
birth_name	Paul John Werbos
birth_date
fields	Social science
Machine learning
alma_mater	Harvard University
thesis_title	Beyond Regression: New Tools for Prediction and Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences
thesis_url	https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/1974-werbos.pdf
thesis_year	1974
doctoral_advisor	Karl Deutsch
academic_advisors	Yu-Chi Ho
known_for	Backpropagation
awards	IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award (1995)
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2022)

Machine learning IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2022)

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. He also was a pioneer of recurrent neural networks.

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.

Werbos has also written on quantum mechanics and other areas of physics. 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

Werbos, Paul J.. (1994). "The Roots of Backpropagation : From Ordered Derivatives to Neural Networks and Political Forecasting". John Wiley & Sons.
Werbos, P.. (1990). "Backpropagation Through Time: What It Does and How to Do It". Proceedings of the IEEE.
"Award Recipients".
Werbos, Paul J.. (2005). "A Conjecture About Fermi–Bose Equivalence".
(December 7, 2012). "Discussion with Paul Werbos on the Nature of Quantum Nonlocality".

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