It is well-known that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two scientists who contributed to neural networks.
When I was working at Fujitsu, I read papers written by Prof. Shun-ichi Amari, a pioneer in neural networks, and I remembered that I was passionately discussing the possibilities of future computers with my colleagues, and I was surprised that Prof. Amari was not included as one of the recipients of the award. I felt very uncomfortable with it.
By the way, with the power of computers at that time, it was impossible to realize a neural network as software, so I and my colleagues were thinking about building it as hardware.
Prof. Amari’s pioneering researches:
1. A Theory of Adaptive Pattern Classifiers、1967
2. Characteristics of randomly connected threshold-element networks and network systems、1971
3. Learning Patterns and Pattern Sequences by Self-Organizing Nets of Threshold Elements、1972
4. Characteristics of Random Nets of Analog Neuron-Like Elements、1972
