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)