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From: bruce@menkar.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bruce Mount 572-8408)
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Subject: Beginner Books Summarized/Thanks Russell Beale
Keywords: Neural Nets, beginner, introduction
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Date: 15 Mar 90 15:47:49 GMT
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This is a summary of suggestions I received...
>                                  ...for a beginning book on neural nets.
>Something like "Neural nets for idiots" or "Neural nets made so simple
>even YOU can understand it".

I have no connection with any of the authors named below.


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[From Russell Beale who warned me fair and square it was a shameless plug.]

I have just co-written a book:

    "An Intro. to Neural Networks" 

aimed at complete beginners to the area.  It'll be published in 
June by Adam Hilger, c. 250 pages, ISBN 0 85274 262 2
-- Russell Beale, Advanced Computer Architecture Group,
-- Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington,

[Russell also included a very detailed and interesting table of 
 contents for his book which I would be happy to forward to anyone]
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Everyone will recommend the PDP books to you so I'll go for:

@book{Kohonen88,
        author =        "Teuvo Kohonen",
        address =       "New York",
        year =          1988,
        publisher =     "Springer-Verlag",
        title =         "Self-Organization and Associative Memory",
        edition =       "second"}
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"Parallel Distributed Processing Vol. 1 "
   by RUmelhart and McCleland, MIT Press
 
"Neural Computing"
   by Wasserman, A Van Nostrand Reinhold Book.
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WARNING BRIEF PERSONAL NOTE:
Although I tried to mail back a personal thanks to eash person that
offered a suggestion, I was unable to get mail to Russell Beale.

Russell,
 
Wow!  Thanks a lot!  The table of contents for your upcoming book looks
great.  You can count on selling at least one copy of your book.  I hope 
your book does well.
 
Best of luck,
 
--Bruce
(If anyone else did not get a thank you from me, I'm sorry.  Thank you!
 Thank you!  Thank you!  I sent one to everyone.)
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