Paul J. Werbos (1974) PhD thesis, Harvard University. URL: https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/1974-werbos.pdf Abstract. Werbos's doctoral thesis in which backpropagation was first formulated as a method for training multilayer networks, a decade before its rediscovery and popularisation by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams. Tags: neural-networks backpropagation history url-only PreviousPaul Christiano (2023) NextPeter Shaw, Jakob Uszkoreit, & Ashish Vaswani (2018)