Introductory words on Hopfield Networks

BA Swarthmore 1954; PhD Cornell (theoretical physics) 1958. Member of technical staff Bell Laboratories 1958-1960 & 1973-1996; Faculty positions at UCBerkeley (physics) 1961-1964, Princeton Univ. (physics) 1964-1980, Caltech (chemistry and biology) 1980-1996, Princeton Univ. (molecular biology) 1997-2008, Institute for Advanced Study (2010-2013), now emeritus at Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Served as Chairman of the Faculty, Caltech; President of the American Physical Society; Executive Officer for Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech. Honors include Buckley Prize in Solid State Physics; APS prize in biophysics; Dirac Medal; Einstein Award; MacArthur Fellow; IEEE Rosenblatt Award; Swartz Prize in Computational Neuroscience. Member, National Academy of Science; American Philosophical Society. Research on the interaction of light with solids 1956-1970; biomolecular physics and kinetic proofreading 1970-1980; neural network dynamics and neurobiology 1980-.