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'''Terrence J. (Terry) Sejnowski''',<br/>
an American physicist, computer scientist, neurobiologist, investigator at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick Francis Crick] professor at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salk_Institute_for_Biological_Studies Salk Institute for Biological Studies], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jolla La Jolla], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego San Diego], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California California], and adjunct professor in the departments of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience neurosciences], [[Psychology|psychology]], [[Cognition|cognitive science]], computer science and engineering at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego University of California, San Diego].
He was further member of the advisory committee for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama President Obama’s] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative BRAIN Initiative]. Terrence Sejnowski received his M.Sc. in physics under [[Mathematician#JAWheeler|John Wheeler]] in 1970 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University], and his Ph.D. in physics under [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] in 1978 at Princeton as well.
In 1982, he joined the department of biology at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University Johns Hopkins University] before moving to San Diego in 1988. He pioneered in [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience computational neuroscience], and co-invented the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_machine Boltzmann machine], a type of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network recurrent neural network] capable of learning internal representations <ref>[[Mathematician#DHAckley|David H. Ackley]], [[Mathematician#GEHinton|Geoffrey E. Hinton]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1985'''). ''A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines''. Cognitive Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718022336/http://learning.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/cogscibm.pdf pdf]</ref>,
and researched on problems in speech concerning English [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation pronunciation], resulting in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETtalk_(artificial_neural_network) NETtalk] <ref>[[Terrence J. Sejnowski]], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Rosenberg:Charles_R= Charles R. Rosenberg] ('''1987'''). ''Parallel Networks That Learn to Pronounce English Text''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Systems_(journal) Complex Systems], Vol. 1, [https://papers.cnl.salk.edu/PDFs/The%20Spacing%20Effect%20on%20NETtalk%2C%20A%20Massively-Parallel%20Network%201986-3906.pdf pdf]</ref>.
In collaboration with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Oakley Barbara Oakley], Terrence Sejnowski co-created and taught ''Learning How To Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects'', available as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course MOOC] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera Coursera] <ref>[https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects - University of California, San Diego | Coursera]</ref>.

=Learning in Games=
Along with [[Gerald Tesauro]], Terrence Sejnowski worked and published on neural networks applied to [[Backgammon]] <ref>[[Gerald Tesauro]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1987'''). ''A 'Neural' Network that Learns to Play Backgammon''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/nips/nips1987.html NIPS 1987]</ref>, and along with [[Nicol N. Schraudolph]] and [[Peter Dayan]] on [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal difference learning]] to evaluate positions in [[Go]] <ref>[[Nicol N. Schraudolph]], [[Peter Dayan]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1994'''). ''[https://nic.schraudolph.org/bib2html/b2hd-SchDaySej94.html Temporal Difference Learning of Position Evaluation in the Game of Go]''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-6-1993 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6]</ref>.

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Sejnowski:Terrence_J= dblp: Terrence J. Sejnowski]</ref>
==1985 ...==
* [[Mathematician#DHAckley|David H. Ackley]], [[Mathematician#GEHinton|Geoffrey E. Hinton]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1985'''). ''A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines''. Cognitive Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718022336/http://learning.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/cogscibm.pdf pdf]
* [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Rosenberg:Charles_R= Charles R. Rosenberg] ('''987'''). ''Parallel Networks That Learn to Pronounce English Text''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Systems_(journal) Complex Systems], Vol. 1, [https://papers.cnl.salk.edu/PDFs/The%20Spacing%20Effect%20on%20NETtalk%2C%20A%20Massively-Parallel%20Network%201986-3906.pdf pdf]
* [[Gerald Tesauro]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1987'''). ''A 'Neural' Network that Learns to Play Backgammon''. [hhttps://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/nips/nips1987.html NIPS 1987], [https://papers.nips.cc/paper/30-a-neural-network-that-learns-to-play-backgammon.pdf pdf]
* [[Gerald Tesauro]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1989'''). ''A Parallel Network that Learns to Play Backgammon''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 39, No. 3
==1990 ...==
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/f/Fang:Yan Yan Fang], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1990'''). ''Faster Learning for Dynamic Recurrent Backpropagation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_(journal) Neural Computation], Vol. 2, No. 3, [https://papers.cnl.salk.edu/PDFs/Faster%20Learning%20for%20Dynamic%20Recurrent%20Backpropagation%201990-3145.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Churchland Patricia Churchland], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1992'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computational-brain The Computational Brain]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
* [[Nicol N. Schraudolph]], [[Peter Dayan]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1994'''). ''[https://nic.schraudolph.org/bib2html/b2hd-SchDaySej94.html Temporal Difference Learning of Position Evaluation in the Game of Go]''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-6-1993 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6] <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/go-net.html Nici Schraudolph’s go networks], review by [[Jay Scott]]</ref>
* [[Peter Dayan]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1994'''). ''TD(λ) converges with Probability 1''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_(journal) Machine Learning], Vol. 14, No. 1, [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Terrence_Sejnowski/publication/228392650_TD_X_Converges_with_Probability/links/54a4afea0cf256bf8bb327a9.pdf?origin=publication_detail pdf]
* [[Nicol N. Schraudolph]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1995'''). ''Tempering Backpropagation Networks: Not All Weights are Created Equal''. [https://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-8-1995 NIPS 1995], [https://papers.nips.cc/paper/1100-tempering-backpropagation-networks-not-all-weights-are-created-equal.pdf pdf]
* [[Peter Dayan]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''1996'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018357105171 Exploration Bonuses and Dual Control]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_(journal) Machine Learning], Vol. 25, No. 1, [http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dayan/papers/ds96.pdf pdf]
* [[Laurence F. Abbott]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] (eds.) ('''1999'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/neural-codes-and-distributed-representations Neural Codes and Distributed Representations]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
* [[Mathematician#GEHinton|Geoffrey E. Hinton]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] (eds.) ('''1999'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/unsupervised-learning Unsupervised Learning: Foundations of Neural Computation]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
==2000 ...==
* [[Nicol N. Schraudolph]], [[Peter Dayan]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7908-1833-8_4 Learning to Evaluate Go Positions via Temporal Difference Methods]''. [http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/1/reviews/takama.html Computational Intelligence in Games, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing]. [http://www.springer.com/economics?SGWID=1-165-6-73481-0 Physica-Verlag], [https://papers.cnl.salk.edu/PDFs/Learning%20to%20Evaluate%20Go%20Positions%20Via%20Temporal%20Difference%20Methods%202001-3244.pdf pdf]
* [[Michael I. Jordan]], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] (eds.) ('''2002'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/graphical-models Graphical Models: Foundations of Neural Computation]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
==2010 ...==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Churchland Patricia Churchland], [[Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computational-brain-25th-anniversary-edition The Computational Brain, 25th Anniversary Edition]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]

=External Links=
* [https://www.salk.edu/scientist/terrence-sejnowski/ Terrence Sejnowski - Salk Institute for Biological Studies]
* [https://cnl.salk.edu/ The Computational Neurobiology Laboratory - The Sejnowski Lab: Bridging the Levels]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Sejnowski Terry Sejnowski from Wikipedia]

=References=
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