Paul Werbos described the backpropagation of errors algorithm in his 1974 Ph.D. thesis, and over a decade later, David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ronald Williams popularized it in a seminal 1986 paper. This mathematical breakthrough allowed multi-layer neural networks to learn efficiently, shattering the limitations described by Minsky in 1969 and resurrecting the connectionist paradigm.
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