Michael A. Arbib

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Michael Anthony Arbib (born May 28, 1940) is an American computational neuroscientist. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and professor emeritus at the University of Southern California; before his 2016 retirement he was the Fletcher Jones Professor of computer science, as well as a professor of biological sciences, [1] biomedical engineering, [1] electrical engineering, [2] neuroscience and psychology. [1]

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Early life and education

Arbib was born in England on May 28, 1940, the oldest of four children. His parents moved to New Zealand when he was about 7, and on to Australia when he was about 9. [3] Arbib was educated in New Zealand and at The Scots College in Sydney, Australia.[ citation needed ] In 1960 he took a BSc (Hons) at the University of Sydney, [2] with the University Medal in Pure Mathematics.[ citation needed ]

Arbib received his PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. [4] He was advised by Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, and Henry McKean. [3] [4] As a student, he also worked with Warren McCulloch, the co-inventor of the artificial neural network and finite-state machine. [3]

Career

Following his PhD, Arbib moved to Stanford for a postdoc with Rudolf E. Kálmán. [3] [5] Arbib spent five years at Stanford, before moving to become becoming the founding chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1970. [5] He remained in the Department until 1986, when he joined the University of Southern California. [5] He retired and was granted emeritus status in 2016. [6]

Arbib's collected papers from the period 1960 through 1985 are held by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [7]

Awards and honors

Selected bibliography

Authored and co-authored books

Edited books

Other publications

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  2. 1 2 Gold Medal The Atlas[ dead link ]
  3. 1 2 3 4 Anderson, James A.; Rosenfeld, Edward (2000). "10 Michael A. Arbib". Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks. MIT Press. pp. 211–238. ISBN   978-0-262-51111-7.
  4. 1 2 Michael A. Arbib at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 3 Emory, Margaret (April 5, 2019). "From Building Brains to Brained Buildings: An Interview with Michael A. Arbib". BrainWorld. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Professor Emeritus Michael Arbib: A Remarkable Trajectory - 55 Years of Brains, Machines and Mathematics (event announcement)". Department of Computer Science. University of Southern California. September 12, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Michael A. Arbib Papers". Library. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF). American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
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