According to Schmidhuber's page, the first neural-network-specific application of efficient backpropagation was apparently described by Werbos in 1982, and not yet in his 1974 thesis.
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Who Invented Backpropagation? → attributes to → Werbos (1982), cited by Schmidhuber as [BP2]
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