16 Facts About Frank Rosenblatt

Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence.

Frank Rosenblatt is sometimes called the father of deep learning for his pioneering work on artificial neural networks.

Frank Rosenblatt used it between 1951 and 1953 to analyze psychometric data collected for his PhD thesis.

Frank Rosenblatt subsequently moved to Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York, where he was successively a research psychologist, senior psychologist, and head of the cognitive systems section.

Frank Rosenblatt died in July 1971 on his 43rd birthday, in a boating accident in Chesapeake Bay.

Frank Rosenblatt was eulogized on the floor of the House of Representatives, among others by former Senator Eugene McCarthy.

Frank Rosenblatt's perceptrons were initially simulated on an IBM 704 computer at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in 1957.

Frank Rosenblatt developed and extended this approach in numerous papers and a book called Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms, published by Spartan Books in 1962.

Frank Rosenblatt used the book to teach an interdisciplinary course entitled "Theory of Brain Mechanisms" that drew students from Cornell's Engineering and Liberal Arts colleges.

Around the late 1960s, inspired by James V McConnell's experiments with memory transfer in planarians, Rosenblatt began experiments within the Cornell Department of Entomology on the transfer of learned behavior via rat brain extracts.

Frank Rosenblatt spent his last several years on this problem and showed convincingly that the initial reports of larger effects were wrong and that any memory transfer was at most very small.

Frank Rosenblatt had a serious research interest in astronomy and proposed a new technique to detect the presence of stellar satellites.

Frank Rosenblatt built an observatory on a hilltop behind his house in Brooktondale about 6 miles east of Ithaca.

When construction on the observatory was completed, Frank Rosenblatt began an intensive study on SETI.

Frank Rosenblatt studied photometry and developed a technique for "detecting low-level laser signals against a relatively intense background of non-coherent light".

Frank Rosenblatt worked in the Eugene McCarthy primary campaigns for president in New Hampshire and California in 1968 and in a series of Vietnam protest activities in Washington.