The 1943 entry retains the research master’s neural-computation context for some later computational and AI practices. Generative art also has earlier histories of rules, combinatorics and material processes that this catalogue does not yet cover comprehensively. Intellectual contexts, artworks and institutional events are distinguished; technical release dates do not substitute for art history. Computer plotting, software art, evolutionary systems, machine learning and crypto art can be compared without assuming that all computation uses the same method, or that chronological adjacency establishes influence.
View full image ↗A scanned page of McCulloch and Pitts’ 1943 paper, including original neural-network figures. The paper’s notation and layout are preserved.
Warren S. McCulloch; Walter Pitts · Carnegie Mellon University hosted copy
Source · A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity ↗An archive research guide. Chinese and English text may include AI-assisted translation and awaits independent human review. Check historical claims against each node’s original sources.
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