Walter Pitts and Biological Computation: Neural Realization, Biological Time, and the Unfinished Foundations of Cognitive Science.
Walter Pitts is usually remembered as the mathematical co-author of the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts paper and as a precursor of artificial neural networks. That placement is accurate, but it is too narrow to capture the theoretical significance of his work for biological information systems. This article reconstructs Pitts' c...