Widrow and Hoff: adaptive switching circuits

What changed

Presented error-driven trainable adaptive switching circuits and ADALINE demonstrations.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1960 WESCON paper. It does not absorb the perceptron, all later least-mean-squares formulations or modern multilayer neural networks, and its demonstrations remain bounded to the circuits and tasks reported.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1960 WESCON paper. It does not absorb the perceptron, all later least-mean-squares formulations or modern multilayer neural networks, and its demonstrations remain bounded to the circuits and tasks reported.

Contributors

• Bernard Widrow · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Marcian E. Hoff · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Author-hosted full text of Adaptive Switching Circuits
• Bernard Widrow publication list

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