Nominator's statement

Yes, should be in the canon for the way if famously misfired.

comments

• Neural networks -- generated much debate and discussion within the neural network community about what neural nets could and could not do.

• The real reason why neural network suffer draught before the introduction of multi-layer perceptron.

• Should be included as a negative example because of its disastrous impact. Influential people throughout history have suppressed new paradigms. e.g. the church re: the earth orbiting the sun. It happens still. (be brave and include it)