Albert Maurel Uttley (14 August, 1906,

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- 13 September, 1985 Bexhill) was an English scientist involved in

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computer, computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and the development of both computer hardware, hardware and softw ...

cybernetics Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action. It is concerned with ...

neurophysiology Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience concerned with the functions of the nervous system and their mechanisms. The term ''neurophysiology'' originates from the Greek word ''νεῦρον'' ("nerve") and ''physiology'' (whic ...

and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

. He was a member of the Ratio Club and was the person who suggested its name. He was designing conditional-probability neural nets for

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

for the British military. He showed that neural networks with Hebbian learning rules could learn to classify binary sequences. Albert was the son of George and Ethel Uttley. He married Gwendoline Lucy Richens.

Publications

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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uttley, Albert 1906 births 1985 deaths English scientists Scientists from London