When and where was Walter Pitts born?
Walter Harry Pitts Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, on the 23rd of April 1923.
Questions about Walter Pitts
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What did Walter Pitts do at age twelve regarding Principia Mathematica?
At age twelve he spent three days inside a library reading Principia Mathematica and wrote a letter to Bertrand Russell pointing out errors in the first half of the first volume.
Who invited Walter Pitts to live with his family in early 1942?
Warren McCulloch took a position as professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1941 and invited Walter Pitts and Jerome Lettvin to live with his family in early 1942.
Which paper did Walter Pitts co-author with Jerome Lettvin in 1959?
In 1959 Jerome Lettvin and Walter Pitts co-authored What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain which demonstrated that analog processes in the eye performed interpretive work on images.
Why did Walter Pitts burn his unpublished doctoral dissertation?
Pitts burned his unpublished doctoral dissertation on probabilistic three-dimensional neural networks after reading results from his 1959 study which contradicted the belief that the brain computed information digital neuron by digital neuron using mathematical logic.