mcculloch-pitts neuron

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mcculloch-pitts neuron - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  McCulloch-Pitts neuron
  
     <artificial intelligence> The basic building block of
     artificial neural networks.  It receives one or more inputs
     and produces one or more identical outputs, each of which is a
     simple non-linear function of the sum of the inputs to the
     neuron.  The non-linear function is typically a threshhold or
     step function which is usually smoothed (i.e. a sigmoid) to
     facilitate learning.
  
     (1997-10-11)