Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Hecht-Nielsen

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1947

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 25-May-2019

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Robert Hecht-Nielsen

  • Robert Hecht-Nielsen (July 18, 1947 - May 25, 2019) was an American computer scientist who was an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
  • He co-founded HNC Software, and became a vice president of R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation when it acquired the company. In March, 2005, he held an event to announce "the fundamental mechanism of cognition", which he believes is a process of confabulation (neural networks).
  • He posits that all actions and thoughts begin as the "winners" of competitions, where confabulations are tested for cogency based on antecedent support.
  • He presented some mathematical models of the proposed mechanism, and some experimental results where software using this system was able to add several words to a stub of a sentence, keeping that stub coherent and, optionally, maintaining some connection to a full input sentence supplied as context. For example, given "But the other ..." the program returns "But the other semifinal match between fourth-seeded ...".
  • Given "Japan manufactures many consumer products." for context, and the same three-word stub, it returns "But the other executives included well-known companies ...".
  • Five pages of such examples were given. He made red, green, and blue-striped medallions to commemorate the event, and had them distributed to the audience along with pamphlets explaining their significance: "This new era, which as yet has no name, will be characterized by the eternal universal freedom from want provided by intelligent machines."

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