Bernard Widrow

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1929 –

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Who is Bernard Widrow?

Bernard Widrow is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter 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.

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Born
Dec 24, 1929
Profession
Education
  • Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Electrical engineering
    ( - 1956)
  • Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Electrical engineering
    ( - 1953)
  • Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Electrical engineering
    ( - 1951)
Employment
  • Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
    (1959 - )
  • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1956 - 1959)
  • Lincoln Laboratory Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1951 - 1956)
  • Electrical Engineering Department Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1951 - 1956)

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on July 23, 2013

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