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From: pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: What is connectionism?
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Date: 4 Jan 91 01:41:33 GMT
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In article <1991Jan3.205417.24369@agate.berkeley.edu>, bks@alfa.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) writes:

> Forgive my extreme ignorance, but could someone give a thumbnail sketch
> of "connectionism."  It seems not to exist in my dictionary, nor can
> I find it in the title of any periodical in the UCB on-line database
> (unless it is also known as "Connection Science").

  Connectionism, I believe, is the term applied to the theory and application
of neural-networks.  It may be far more general than that, eg, to include
ultra-large networks of computers/entities.

Paul Menon
pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au