Branko Souček (
Bjelovar, 25 April 1930 –
Bari
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, 12 December 2014) was a Croatian academic and computer scientist who authored the first
Croatian-made digital computer and the first computer paper in 1959. Souček founded the first laboratory of
Cybernetics
Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...
. Souček and IRIS are the authors and editors of ten books presenting the Sixth Generation Projects results.
Biography
Souček was born in 1930 in
Bjelovar, at that time part of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was of
Czech descent through his father František. He graduated in electrical engineering at the
Zagreb University
The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...
in 1955. He subsequently worked at the
Ruđer Bošković institute from 1955 to 1976. By the year 1959 at the institute, he devised and led a team to construct the first digital computer in the country. He constructed the project "256-channel analyzer, memory, logic and programs" and published it in the journal "Elektrotehnika" in 1959. Souček's computer was advanced for its time and it aroused global interest from the scientific circles. The director of the
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
William Higinbotham
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, personally came to Yugoslavia to see the computer. The computer was about 2 metres high, the programmes were executed with million cycles per second, logical circuits were based on
vacuum tubes. It was the recipient of numerous awards in 1960 and 1963.
He was a corresponding member of the
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was an associate member in
United Nations Industrial Development Organization and
International Atomic Energy Agency
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as well as
NASA,
IBM,
Siemens
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The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...
,
Schering, BNL and the Ruđer Bošković institute. He was a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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.
His biography was included in various publications, such as "International scientist 2003", "
Who's Who in the world 2001.", and "Who's Who in science and engineering 2004".
Work
Branko Souček spent fifty years working out the self-organization of life intelligence. Over this time period, Souček pioneered research, development, and theory on a universal set of cell, brain, mind, and sex laws describing the fundamental nature of courting and mating.
* Cell Internal Language Organization (CILO)
* Brain Internal Language Organization (BILO)
* Mind, Language Bank and Trust
* Natural and Financial Sex Behaviour
Neural and Intelligent Systems
The theory behind intelligent systems can be viewed as a complement to the genetic DNA code. At the core of mind and brain is
quantum information processing. Souček discovered that through primary waveforms,
neural networks
A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...
and mental processes such as memory and behavior are generated from agents or oscillators in neural structures.
Furthermore, these quantum processes describe the fundamental mechanics of individual neurons and their interactions present within consciousness. These mechanics can be studied to reveal their processes and features.
On a macro-level, primary oscillators can be studied to explain psychological phenomena and behavior.
Publications
*Minicomputers, Microprocessors and Microcomputers, 1972.
*Minicomputers in Data Processing and Simulation, 1972.
*Microprocessors and Microcomputers, 1976.
*Computers in Neurobiology and Behavior, 1976.
*Neural and Massively Parallel Computers: The Sixth Generation, 1988.
*Neural and Concurrent Real-Time Systems: The Sixth Generation (Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series), 1989.
*Neural and Intelligent Systems Integration: Fifth and Sixth Generation Integrated Reasoning Information Systems (Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series), 1991.
*Dynamic, Genetic, and Chaotic Programming: The Sixth-Generation (Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series), 1992.
*Fast Learning and Invariant Object Recognition: The Sixth-Generation Breakthrough (Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series), 1992.
*Fuzzy, Holographic, and Parallel Intelligence: The Sixth-Generation Breakthrough (Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series), 1992.
*Frontier Decision Support Concepts: Help Desk, Learning, Fuzzy Diagnoses, Quality Evaluation, Prediction, Evolution (Sixth-Generation Computer Technology Series), 1994.
*Quantum Mind Networks, 1997.
*Better Life and Business: Cell, Brain, Mind and Sex Universal Laws, 2013.
References
External links
Article on InfoTrend.hrBranko Souček
on Enciklopedija
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Croatian engineers
Yugoslav engineers
1930 births
2014 deaths
People from Bjelovar
Croatian people of Czech descent