IJCNN 2023: Celebrating 80 Years of Neural Networks

Neural Networks (NN) have been major techniques for the development of Computational Intelligence (CI) for more than 80 years now, since the conception of the Perceptron in 1943 by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, with the first implementation as a machine built in 1958 by F. Rosenblatt. Now NN have become the dominant techniques for CI. The new developments in NN are based on all previous studies and are ubiquitous across all areas of science, technologies and societies. We are seeing new developments of deep neural networks, long short-term memory networks, transformers, neuro-fuzzy systems, neuroevolutionary systems, brain-inspired spiking neural networks, neuromorphic chips, NN based supercomputers and many more.