Walter Pitts

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-226

  Smalheiser, Neil R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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ART; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTORY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEUROBIOLOGY; PORTRAITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034541072     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2000.0009     Document Type: Article

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3. Pitts, W. Some observations on the simple neuron circuit. Bull. Math. Biophys. 4: 121-29, 1942.
4. Pitts, W. The linear theory of neuron networks: The static problem. Bull. Math. Biophys. 4:169-75, 1942.
5. Pitts, W. The linear theory of neuron networks: The dynamic problem. Bull. Math. Biophys. 5:23-31, 1943.
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10. Von Neumann, J. The general and logical theory of automata. Hixon Symp. lecture, Pasadena. In Collected Works 5:288-338, 1948.
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16. Lettvin, J. Y., and Pitts, W. A mathematical theory of the affective psychoses. Bull. Math. Biophys. 5:139-48, 1943.
17. Rosenblueth, A., Wiener, N., Pitts, W., and Garcia Ramos, J. A statistical analysis of synaptic excitation. J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 34:173-205, 1949.
18. Wiener, N. Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1949.
19. Heims, S. J. The Cybernetics Group. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
20. Pitts, W. Investigations on synaptic transmission. In Cybernetics: Transactions of the Ninth Conference March 20-21, 1952. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, 1952.
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22. Bello, F. The young scientists. Fortune (June):142-82, 1954.
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24. Gesteland, R., Lettvin, J., and Pitts, W. Chemical transmission in the nose of the frog. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 181:525-59, 1965.
25. Lettvin, J., Maturana, H., McCulloch, W., and Pitts, W. What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain. Proc. IRE 47:1940-51, 1959.
26. De Santillana, G., and Pitts, W. Philolaos in limbo, or what happened to the Pythagoreans? Isis 42:112-20, 1951.
27. (See related correspondence in Isis 43: 121-23, 1951.)
28. De Santillana, G., and Pitts, W. Paralipomena of the future. Course material in History of Science at MIT, 1950, anthologized in De Santillana, G. Reflections on Men and Ideas. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968.
29. Descartes, R.: "Principia Philosophiae, part II." Worksheets for a translation by G. De Santillana and W. Pitts. MIT Library, accession no. 22518968.
30. De Santillana, G. Prologue to Parmenides, Anthologized in De Santillana, G. Reflections on Men and Ideas. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1964.
31. De Santillana, G., and von Dechend, H. Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time. Ipswich: Gambit, 1969.
32. City of Cambridge, MA. Record of deaths, no. 653, 16 May 1969.