perceptronn.
/pəˈsɛptrɒn/, U.S. /pərˈsɛpˌtrɑn/ A hypothetical model or machine devised to represent or simulate the ability of the brain to recognize and discriminate, originally based on statistical concepts.
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perceptron1958
1958 F. Rosenblatt Perceptron p. ix Project PARA..was initiated at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory... The brain model (and any system functioning in this manner) is now called a perceptron.
1962 W. S. Holmes in G. L. Fischer et al. Optical Char. Recognition 213 A program of pattern recognition research..has turned toward the application of perceptrons to useful tasks such as the recognition of printed characters.
1978 A. Bundy et al. Artific. Intelligence v. 184 The important point about a perceptron is that it makes a global decision about a figure by weighing only local evidence.
1992 Sci. Amer. Jan. 27/1 (advt.) It aims to use the multi-layer perceptron type of neural networking to develop forecasting models for the securities and foreign exchange markets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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