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Warren Sturgis McCulloch was born in Orange , New Jersey and studied at Yale (philosophy and psychology, A.B. degree in 1921) and Columbia (psychology, M.A. degree in 1923). Receiving his MD in 1927 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York he undertook an internship at Bellevue Hospital , New York before returning to academia in 1934. He is remembered for his work with ''. In the 1943 paper they attempted to demonstrate that a Turing Machine program could be implemented in a finite network of ''formal'' Neuron s, (in the event, the Turing Machine contains their model of the brain, but the converse is not true; see S.C. Kleene, "Representations of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata") that the neuron was the base logic unit of the brain. In the 1947 paper they offered approaches to designing "nervous nets" to recognize visual inputs despite changes in orientation or size. From 1952 he worked at the and Pask in their study of Self-organization . He was a founder member of the American Society For Cybernetics and its first president during 1967–1968. He was a mentor to the British Operations Research pioneer Stafford Beer . He met Alan Turing once, but Turing dismissed him as a 'charlatan'. (Crevier 1993:31) Warren McCulloch had a remarkable range of interests and talents. In addition to his scientific contributions he wrote poetry ( Sonnet s), and he designed and engineered buildings and a dam at his farm in Old Lyme , Connecticut. He died in Cambridge in 1969. His papers now reside in the manuscripts collection of the American Philosophical Society . REFERENCES
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