Terry Sejnowski

Professor, Laboratory Head, and Francis Crick Chair at Salk Institute for Biological StudiesDistinguished Professor at UC San Diego

🇺🇸 American

One of the founders of computational neuroscience, Sejnowski helped connect models of the brain with modern machine learning. He co-developed Boltzmann machines, which learn patterns through networks of interacting units, and built NETtalk, an influential early neural network that learned to pronounce written English.