Albert Uttley

Albert Maurel Uttley (14 August, 1906, London - 13 September, 1985 Bexhill)^[1] was an English scientist involved in computing, cybernetics, neurophysiology and psychology. He was a member of the Ratio Club and was the person who suggested its name.^[2]

He was designing conditional-probability neural nets for pattern recognition for the British military.^[3] He showed that neural networks with Hebbian learning rules could learn to classify binary sequences.^[4]

Albert was the son of George and Ethel Uttley. He married Gwendoline Lucy Richens.^[1]

Publications

• "Information, machines, and brains", Trans. of the IRE Professional Group on Information Theory (TIT) 1: 143-149 (1953)
• "A theory on the mechanism of learning based on the computation of conditional probabilities", Proceedings of the First International Congress on Cybernetics, Naumur 1956 pp.830-856
• "The Design of Conditional Probability Computers", Information and Control 2(1): 1-24 (1959)

References

1. "Albert Maurel Uttley". geni_family_tree. Geni.com. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
2. Husbands, Phil; Holland, Owen (2008). Husbands, Phil; Holland, Owen; Wheeler, M (eds.). "The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics". The Mechanical Mind in History. MIT Press: 91–148. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262083775.003.0006. ISBN 9780262083775.
3. Kline, Ronald (April 2011). "Cybernetics, Automata Studies, and the Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 33 (4): 5–16. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2010.44. ISSN 1934-1547.
4. Cowan, Jack D.; Sharp, David H. (1988). "Neural Nets and Artificial Intelligence". Daedalus. 117 (1): 85–121. ISSN 0011-5266.