Pentti Kanerva
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Pentti Kanerva (born 1937[1]) is a Finnish-born American neuroscientist and the originator of the sparse distributed memory model.[2] 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.[3] This theory has been applied to design and implement the random indexing approach to learning semantic relations from linguistic data.[4][5][6][7] Kanerva was also the first to use a computer clipboard to preserve deleted texts. The operation would later come to be known as cut, copy, and paste.[8]
