Ronald J. Williams
Encyclopedia
Ronald J. Williams is professor of computer science
at Northeastern University, and one of the pioneers of neural networks
. He co-authored a paper on the backpropagation
algorithm which triggered a boom in neural network research. He also made fundamental contributions to the fields of recurrent neural networks and reinforcement learning
.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Northeastern University, and one of the pioneers of neural networks
Neural Networks
Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural networks: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier...
. He co-authored a paper on the backpropagation
Backpropagation
Backpropagation is a common method of teaching artificial neural networks how to perform a given task. Arthur E. Bryson and Yu-Chi Ho described it as a multi-stage dynamic system optimization method in 1969 . It wasn't until 1974 and later, when applied in the context of neural networks and...
algorithm which triggered a boom in neural network research. He also made fundamental contributions to the fields of recurrent neural networks and reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning
Inspired by behaviorist psychology, reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning in computer science, concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of cumulative reward...
.