Bernard Widrow

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Name Bernard Widrow Role Professor		Notable students Dileep George

Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956) Awards IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, Benjamin Franklin Medal Books Quantization Noise: Roundoff, Adaptive Inverse Control, Adaptive Signal Processing Similar People Simon S Haykin, Gene F Franklin, Norman Abramson, Dileep George, Abbas El Gamal

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Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff. The LMS algorithm led to the ADALINE and MADALINE artificial neural networks and to the backpropagation technique. He made other fundamental contributions to the development of signal processing in the fields of geophysics, adaptive antennas, and adaptive filtering.

Hebbian Learning and the LMS Algorithm

Publications

1965 "A critical comparison of two kinds of adaptive classification networks", K. Steinbuch and B. Widrow, IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, pp. 737–740.

1985 B. Widrow and S. D. Stearns. Adaptive Signal Processing. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985.

1994 B. Widrow and E. Walach. Adaptive Inverse Control. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994.

2008 B. Widrow and I. Kollar. Quantization Noise: Roundoff Error in Digital Computation, Signal Processing, Control, and Communications. Cambridge University Press, 2008.