Cicchinelli, Alexander L.

Professor Frank Rosenblatt received a B.A. in 1950 and a Ph.D.in 1956 from Cornell University. From 1955 to 1959 he served as director of the Cognitive Systems Section at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory where he did much of his research with models of brain function and neural networks. In 1958, he described his Perceptron, an electronic device which was constructed along biological principles and which showed an ability to learn. In 1959 he organized the Cognitive Systems Research Program at Cornell University. He died in 1971 at the age of 43.

From the description of Frank Rosenblatt publications, 1956-1958. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64057171