Teuvo Kohonen
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Teuvo Kohonen, Dr. Ing (born July 11, 1934), is a Finnish academican and prominent researcher. He is currently professor emeritus of the Academy of Finland.
Prof. Kohonen has made many contributions to the field of artificial neural networks, including the Learning Vector Quantization algorithm, fundamental theories of distributed associative memory and optimal associative mappings, the learning subspace method and novel algorithms for symbol processing like redundant hash addressing. He has published several books and over 200 peer-reviewed papers. His most famous contribution is perhaps the self-organizing map (also known as the Kohonen map, although Kohonen himself prefers SOM).