Bernard Widrow

Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.[1] He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff.[2] The LMS algorithm led to the ADALINE and MADALINE artificial neural networks and to the backpropagation technique.

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Awards
Preceded by
Charles K. Kao
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
1986
Succeeded by
Joel S. Engel, Richard H. Frenkiel and William C. Jakes, Jr.

References

  1. ^ Widrow's Stanford web page
  2. ^ Andrew Goldstein (1997). "Bernard Widrow Oral History". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Bernard_Widrow. Retrieved 22 August 2011.