Albert Uttley

Albert Maurel Uttley was an English scientist involved in computing, cybernetics, neurophysiology and psychology. He was a member of the Ratio Club and was the person who suggested its name.
He was designing conditional-probability neural nets for pattern recognition for the British military. He showed that neural networks with Hebbian learning rules could learn to classify binary sequences.
Albert was the son of George and Ethel Uttley. He married Gwendoline Lucy Richens.

Publications

"", Trans. of the IRE Professional Group on Information Theory 1: 143-149
"A theory on the mechanism of learning based on the computation of conditional probabilities", Proceedings of the First International Congress on Cybernetics, Naumur 1956 pp.830-856
"", Information and Control 2: 1-24