Hinton Mourns Inman Harvey, Cites Childhood Inspiration

Inman Harvey, a pioneer of artificial life and co-founder of the COGS school at Sussex, passed away suddenly on June 5. Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton paid tribute, recalling that a childhood remark by Harvey about distributed memories shaped his 60-year career in neural networks.

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