Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!pmm From: pmm@acsu.buffalo.edu (patrick m mullhaupt) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Travelling Salesman problem Message-ID: <71237@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 16 Apr 91 19:55:21 GMT References: <1991Apr12.162922.4749@nlm.nih.gov> <1991Apr15.192648.535@fwi.uva.nl> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: armstrong.cs.buffalo.edu In article <1991Apr15.192648.535@fwi.uva.nl> smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt) writes: >chrisk@nlm.nih.gov (Christopher Y. Kim) writes: > >>A couple of us medical students in medical informatics heard a lecture >>on neural nets where Dr. Nicholas DeCleris from Maryland mentioned something >>about using a neural network to solve the travelling salesman problem, > >The first person to SOLVE tsp earns the Nobel prize for maths, I'm sure. If I'm not mistaken, I believe there is no Nobel prize for Mathematics, (rumor has it that Nobel's wife ran off with a mathematician).