Pentti Kanerva

Pentti Kanerva is an American neuroscientist who is the originator of the sparse distributed memory model.[1] He is responsible for relating the properties of long-term memory to mathematical properties of high-dimensional spaces and compares artificial neural-net associative memory to conventional computer random-access memory and to the neurons in the brain.[2] This theory has been applied to design and implement the random indexing approach to learning semantic relations from linguistic data.[3][4][5][6]

Education

Kanerva has an A.A. from Warren Wilson College, M.S. in forestry, with a minor in mathematics and statistics from the University of Helsinki, and has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, from Stanford University.[7]

Career

After earning his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1984, Kanerva moved to work at NASA's Ames Research Center. He also worked at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, before taking a position at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute of the University of California, Berkeley.[7]

References
  1. Kanerva, Pentti. Sparse distributed memory. MIT press, 1988.
  2. "Scientific Staff". Redwood Neuroscience Institute. Archived from the original on 14 October 2002. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  3. Kanerva, Pentti, Kristoferson, Jan and Holst, Anders (2000): Random Indexing of Text Samples for Latent Semantic Analysis, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 1036. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 2000.
  4. Sahlgren, Magnus, Holst, Anders and Pentti Kanerva (2008) Permutations as a Means to Encode Order in Word Space, In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: 1300-1305.
  5. Kanerva, Pentti (2009) Hyperdimensional Computing: An Introduction to Computing in Distributed Representation with High-Dimensional Random Vectors, Cognitive Computation, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 139–159.
  6. Joshi, Aditya, Johan Halseth, and Pentti Kanerva. "Language Recognition using Random Indexing." arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7026 (2014).
  7. "Pentti Kanerva". Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
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