Robert Hecht-Nielsen

Robert Hecht-Nielsen (July 18, 1947 – May 25, 2019) was an American computer scientist, neuroscientist, entrepreneur and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Quotes a Neural Network is a set of mathematical expressions that are really good at recognizing patterns in information, or data. A NN accomplishes this through a kind of human emulated perception, but instead of seeing, say an image, like a human would, the NN expresses this information numerically contained within a Vector or Scalar (a Vector only containing one number). MNIST can be seen as the ‘Hello World’ dataset because it is able to demonstrate the capabilities of NNs quite succinctly. The dataset is made up of handwritten digits, which we will train our NN to recognize and classify. To facilitate our implementation we are going to be using the Keras framework. Keras is a high-level API written in Python which runs on-top of popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, Theano, etc. to provide the machine learning practitioner with a layer of abstraction to reduce the inherent complexity of writing NNs. Robert Hecht-Nielsen explaining what Neural Networks are External links Category:Computer scientists from the United States Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:1947 births Category:Dead people Category:2019 deaths