Werbos's Harvard PhD thesis describes backpropagation for multilayer networks
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Described error backpropagation training for multilayer neural networks in his Harvard PhD thesis
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Regarded as the first description, predating the 1986 rediscovery. The reference point in the debate over priority for backpropagation
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