old-TV Type post Author Robert J. Marks II Date January 16, 2026 CategoriesComputational SciencesEngineering Tagged , ADALINE, Adolf Hitler, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bell Labs, Bernard Widrow, Boeing, Claude Shannon, copper, copper plating, Earl Sannard Herald, electrical engineering, electroplating, English, Frank Rosenblatt, French, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Medal, Japanese, Least Mean Squares, MADALINE, Marcian Hoff, National Academy of Engineering, Neural Networks, neurons, pennies, Science in Action, Seattle, silver nitrate, speech recognition, Stanford University Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist Robert J. Marks II January 16, 2026 Computational Sciences, Engineering 11 Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Read More ›