ROSENBLATT, Frank. The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain [with] The Design of an Intelligent Automaton [with] Two Theorems of Statistical Separability on the Perceptron.
Washington and Teddington: American Psychological Association, Office of Naval Resaerch, National Physical Laboratory, 1958. First edition, offprint issues.

Three exceptional and rare offprints on the beginning of neural networks and artificial intelligence - the perceptron. “Rosenblatt’s paper (The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model ...) introduced the perceptron, the first precisely specified, computationally oriented neural network (‘Neural network’ is the term used to describe a system deliberately constructed to employ some of the organizational principles believed to be used in the human brain). The perceptron had the ability to recognize patters and to associate new patters with ones it had ‘seen’ before on the basis of similarity; like the brain, it could function in the presence of ‘noise’ and with damaged or missing connections. Later models were capable of trial-and-error learning and could be taught to emit ordered sequences of responses. Rosenblatt’s perceptron theory took an empiricist or ‘connectionist’ position with regard to the central questions of how information is stored or remembered, and how information contained in storage or memory influences recognition and behavior. Disagreeing with those theorists who saw the brain as simply an imperfectly designed logic machine, Rosenblatt insisted that noise and randomness present in the nervous system were essential to the kinds of computations that brains performed, and thus had to be taken into account ... The perceptron had a major impact on several different disciplines.” (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, no. 870 - the journal issue of the first paper).

8vo. Original printed wrappers. 1st paper: offprint from Psychological Review, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 386-408. 2nd paper: offprint from Research Reviews, October 1958, pp. 5-13. 3rd paper: offprint from Proceedings of the Symposium on the Mechanization of Thought Processes, November, 1958. All thee papers are signed “Harry Blum Nov 59 the Hague” on the front cover. All in fine condition.