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Bernard Widrow was born on 24 December, 1929, is an A Benjamin Franklin Medal laureates. Discover Bernard Widrow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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1929

Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.

He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff.

The LMS algorithm led to the Adaline and MADALINE artificial neural networks and to the backpropagation technique.

He made other fundamental contributions to the development of signal processing in the fields of geophysics, adaptive antennas, and adaptive filtering.

A summary of his work is.

He is the namesake of "Uncle Bernie's Rule": the training sample size should be 10 times the number of weights in a network.

This section is based on.

He was born in Norwich, Connecticut.

While young, he was interested in electronics.

During WWII, he found an entry on "Radios" in the World Book Encyclopedia, and built a one-tube radio.

1947

He entered MIT in 1947, studied electrical engineering and electronics, and graduated in 1951.

After that, he got a research assistantship in the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, in the magnetic core memory group.

The DCL was a division of the Servomechanisms Laboratory, which was building the Whirlwind I computer.

The experience of building magnetic core memory shaped his understanding of computers into a "memory's eye view", that is, he "look for the memory and see what you have to connect around it".

1953

For his masters thesis (1953, advised by William Linvill), he worked on raising the signal-to-noise ratio of the sensing signal of magnetic core memory.

Back then, the hysteresis loops for magnetic core memory was not square enough, making sensing signal noisy.

1956

For his PhD (1956, advised by William Linvill), he worked on the statistical theory of quantization noise, inspired by work by William Linvill and David Middleton.

During PhD, he learned the Wiener filter from Lee Yuk-wing.

To design a Wiener filter, one must know the statistics of the noiseless signal that one wants to recover.

However, if the statistics of the noiseless signal is unknown, this cannot be designed.

Widrow thus designed an adaptive filter that uses gradient descent to minimize the mean square error.

He also attended the Dartmouth workshop in 1956 and was inspired to work on AI.

1959

In 1959, he got his first graduate student, Ted Hoff.

They improved the previous adaptive filter so that it makes a gradient descent for each datapoint, resulting in the delta rule and the Adaline.

To avoid having to hand-tune the weights in Adaline, they invented the memistor, with conductance (Adaline weights) being the thickness of the copper on the graphite.

During a meeting with Frank Rosenblatt, Widrow argued that the S-units in the perceptron machine should not be connected randomly to the A-units.

Instead, the S-units should be removed, so that the photocell inputs would be directly inputted into the A-units.

Rosenblatt objected that "the human retina is built that way".

Despite many attempts, they never succeeded in developing a training algorithm for a multilayered neural network.

1962

The furthest they got was with Madaline Rule I (1962), which had two weight layers.

The first was trainable, but the second was fixed.

Widrow stated their problem would have been solved by the backpropagation algorithm.

"This was long before Paul Werbos. Backprop to me is almost miraculous."

Unable to train multilayered neural networks, Widrow turned to adaptive filtering and adaptive signal processing, using techniques based on the LMS filter for applications such as adaptive antenna, adaptive noise canceling, and applications to medicine.

1985

At a 1985 conference in Snowbird, Utah, he noticed that neural network research was returning, and he also learned of the backpropagation algorithm.

After that, he returned to neural network research.

2003

He was one of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNIS) in 2003.