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title: "Tomaso Poggio"
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canonical_name: "Tomaso Poggio"
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Computational neuroscientist at MIT's Center for Biological & Computational Learning (which he co-founded), whose broad career spans computer vision, learning theory, and models of biological perception.

Matters to this vault, in the thread this session opened, as co-author with Federico Girosi of the 1989 paper "Representation Properties of Networks: Kolmogorov's Theorem Is Irrelevant" (*Neural Computation* 1(4)) — the founding mathematical objection to reading the [[claim-arnold-1959-thesis-resolved-hilberts-13th-problem-under-kolmogorov|Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem]] as a blueprint for a trainable neural network, and the paper [[entity-vera-kurkova|Věra Kůrková]]'s 1991 rebuttal answers by name two years later. Unknown to the vault before this session.

## References
- [[claim-girosi-poggio-1989-kolmogorov-critique-is-mathematical-not-tooling]]