William Grey Walter
See also: Grey
The Dr. William Grey Walter (February 19th 1910 - May 6th 1977) was a pioneer of the Robotique and its " tortues" the self-guiding missiles and the bombs preceded known as " intelligentes" who are machines with the tracking of a target in Téléologie. At the beginning, it was a scientist in Neurophysiologie.
Biography
He born the February 19th 1910 with Kansas City (Missouri) and his parents moved in Great Britain in 1915 when he went to the " Westminster School" and after with the King' S College, Cambridge , in 1931. It missed a contest for a grant to Cambridge and was turned, thus, to make basic applied research in the hospitals of London of 1935 to 1939 before going to the neurological Institute Burden of Bristol until its retirement in 1970. It also made research with the the United States, in Soviet Union and other countries of Europe. Young man, it was very influenced by work of the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov.
Respected neurophysiologist, William Grey Walter is a pioneer of the electroencephalogram (EEG): he discovered the waves " in particular; béta" (rapids) and " delta" (slow) respectively associated with the light and the deep sleep. He also developed the first machine of amplification of cerebral topography.
At the end of the Forties, Dr. Walter undertook research on the automobile and autonomous robots to the " Burden Neurological Institute" , like part of its search of a model of cerebral operation. He wanted to study the base of the simple reflex actions. Then, he wanted to validate his theory of the complex behaviors coming from nervous connections. For its work, it built two " tortues" named " Elsie" and " Elmer" (see Tortues of Bristol-board) whose successes inspired and influenced the departure and the development of the Cybernétique. These " tortues" true precursors of the weapons known as intelligent and industrial robots of today. During the Second world war, he worked on the guided missiles and technologies of the Radar. In the Sixties, it continued its work in Neurophysiologie
Married twice, he was father of two boys of the first marriage and a third of the second marriage. One of the tortoises was restored in 1995 and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution with Washington.
In 1970, it is victim of a serious accident of car of the continuations of which it dies 7 years later.
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