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	I endorse the recommendation of the new book, "Introduction to the
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Date: 29 Jan 91 16:17:16 GMT
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1991, ISBN 0-201-50395-6 [hbk], ISBN0-201-51560-1 [pbk]).  It provides a good
balance of model development, computational algorithms, and applications.
The mathematical derivations are especially well done.
	Another interesting new book is "A Practical Guide to Neural Nets",
by Nelson and Illingworth (Addison-Wesley, 1991, ISBN 0-201-52376-0).  It does
not have much detailed model development (very few equations), but it does
present many areas of application.  It includes a chapter on current areas
of research.  Some people who have recently inquired about existing
commercial applications of neural networks could find a variety of such in
chapter 1.  It also includes a program diskette with a fancy graphical
interface (unlike the PDP diskette).