Editing Igor Aleksander (section)

{{short description|Scientist}}
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|name              = Igor Aleksander
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|birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1937|01|26}}<ref name="imh">{{cite book|title=The history of Imperial College London, 1907–2007: higher education and research in science, technology and medicine|first=Hannah|last=Gay|publisher=World Scientific|year=2007|isbn= 978-1-86094-709-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U5196/ALEKSANDER_Prof._Igor | title = ALEKSANDER, Prof. Igor  | work= Who's Who 2012 | access-date = Nov 9, 2012 | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2011 }}</ref>
|birth_place       = [[Zagreb]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jun/23/scienceinterviews|title=The simple things are hardest|first=Alok|last=Jha|date=2005-06-23|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2009-07-28}}</ref> [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]
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|alma_mater        = [[Queen Mary College, London]]
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|thesis_title = Decimal array logic
|thesis_year=1966
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'''Igor Aleksander''' (born 26 January 1937) is an [[emeritus professor]] of Neural Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at [[Imperial College London]]. He worked in [[artificial intelligence]] and [[Artificial neural network|neural networks]] and designed the world's first neural pattern recognition system in the 1980s.<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp10120 Igor Aleksander 1937–), Head of Intelligent and Interactive Systems at Imperial College], retrieved 17 April 2008.</ref>