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{{Short description|American neuroscientist}} |
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'''Pentti Kanerva''' is |
'''Pentti Kanerva''' is a [[Finnish Americans|Finnish-American]] neuroscientist and the originator of the [[sparse distributed memory]] model.<ref name=sdm>Kanerva, Pentti. Sparse distributed memory. MIT press, 1988.</ref> He is responsible for relating the properties of long-term memory to mathematical properties of [[Clustering high-dimensional data|high-dimensional spaces]] and compares artificial neural-net associative memory to conventional computer [[random-access memory]] and to the neurons in the brain.<ref name=rni>{{cite web|title=Scientific Staff|url=http://www.rni.org/sci-staff.html#pentti-kanerva|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021014113243/http://www.rni.org/sci-staff.html#pentti-kanerva|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 October 2002|publisher=Redwood Neuroscience Institute|accessdate=11 November 2011}}</ref> This theory has been applied to design and implement the [[random indexing]] approach to learning semantic relations from linguistic data.<ref>Kanerva, Pentti, Kristoferson, Jan and Holst, Anders (2000): Random Indexing of Text Samples for Latent Semantic Analysis, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 1036. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 2000.</ref><ref>Sahlgren, Magnus, Holst, Anders and Pentti Kanerva (2008) Permutations as a Means to Encode Order in Word Space, In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: 1300-1305.</ref><ref>Kanerva, Pentti (2009) Hyperdimensional Computing: An Introduction to Computing in Distributed Representation with High-Dimensional Random Vectors, Cognitive Computation, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 139–159.</ref><ref>Joshi, Aditya, Johan Halseth, and Pentti Kanerva. "Language Recognition using Random Indexing." arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7026 (2014).</ref> Kanerva was also the first to use a [[Clipboard (computing)|computer clipboard]] to preserve deleted texts. The operation would later come to be known as [[cut, copy, and paste]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Moggridge|first= Bill|date= 2007|title= Designing interactions|location= Cambridge, Massachusetts|publisher= MIT Press|page= [https://archive.org/details/designinginterac00mogg/page/65 65ff]|isbn= 9780262134743|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/designinginterac00mogg/page/65}}</ref> |
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Kanerva has an A.A. from [[Warren Wilson College]], M.S. in forestry, with a minor in mathematics and statistics from the [[University of Helsinki]], and has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, from [[Stanford University]].<ref name=kanerva>{{cite web|title=Pentti Kanerva|url=http://www.rni.org/kanerva/homepg.html|publisher=Redwood Neuroscience Institute}}</ref> |
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Kanerva has an A.A. from [[Warren Wilson College]] (1956) and an M.S. in forestry, with a minor in mathematics and statistics from the [[University of Helsinki]], Finland (1964).<ref name=rctn-wiki>{{cite web|title=Pentti Kanerva|url=www.rctn.org/wiki/Pentti_Kanerva|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427051104/https://redwood.berkeley.edu/people/pentti-kanerva/|archive-date=27 April 2023|access-date=6 December 2023|publisher=Redwood Neuroscience Institute wiki}}</ref> Kanerva worked in statistics and programming for the [[Finnish Forest Research Institute]], the [[CSC – IT Center for Science|Finnish State Computer Center]], and the [[University of Tampere]], Finland, before emigrating to the United States in 1967.<ref name=rctn-wiki></ref><ref name=kanerva>{{cite web|title=Pentti Kanerva|url=https://redwood.berkeley.edu/people/pentti-kanerva|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722025954/https://redwood.berkeley.edu/people/pentti-kanerva/|access-date=6 December 2023|publisher=Redwood Neuroscience Institute}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://simons.berkeley.edu/people/pentti-kanerva |title=Pentti Kanerva |website=[[Simons Institute]] |access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref> He worked for [[Stanford University]] as a systems specialist and research assistant before earning his Ph.D. there in 1984.<ref name=rctn-wiki></ref> Kanerva went on to work at NASA's [[Ames Research Center]] and the [[Swedish Institute of Computer Science]], before taking a position at the [[Redwood Neuroscience Institute]] of the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=kanerva></ref><ref name=rctn-wiki></ref> |
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==Early life and career== |
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Kanerva moved to the United States from Finland in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://simons.berkeley.edu/people/pentti-kanerva |title=Pentti Kanerva |website=[[Simons Institute]] |access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref> After earning his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1984, Kanerva moved to work at NASA's [[Ames Research Center]]. He also worked at the [[Swedish Institute of Computer Science]], before taking a position at the [[Redwood Neuroscience Institute]] of the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=kanerva /> |
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Kanerva is a member of the [[Cognitive Science Society]]{{,}} the [[International Neural Network Society]]{{,}} and the [[European Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=rctn-wiki></ref> |
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Pentti Kanerva is a Finnish-American neuroscientist and the originator of the sparse distributed memory model.[1] He is responsible for relating the properties of long-term memory to mathematical properties of high-dimensional spaces and compares artificial neural-net associative memory to conventional computer random-access memory and to the neurons in the brain.[2] This theory has been applied to design and implement the random indexing approach to learning semantic relations from linguistic data.[3][4][5][6] Kanerva was also the first to use a computer clipboard to preserve deleted texts. The operation would later come to be known as cut, copy, and paste.[7]
Kanerva has an A.A. from Warren Wilson College (1956) and an M.S. in forestry, with a minor in mathematics and statistics from the University of Helsinki, Finland (1964).[8] Kanerva worked in statistics and programming for the Finnish Forest Research Institute, the Finnish State Computer Center, and the University of Tampere, Finland, before emigrating to the United States in 1967.[8][9][10] He worked for Stanford University as a systems specialist and research assistant before earning his Ph.D. there in 1984.[8] Kanerva went on to work at NASA's Ames Research Center and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, before taking a position at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute of the University of California, Berkeley.[9][8]
Kanerva is a member of the Cognitive Science Society · the International Neural Network Society · and the European Academy of Sciences.[8]
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