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From: vijay@ucbvax.ARPA (Vijay Ramamoorthy)
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Subject: Reinventing Man
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 20:52:46 EST
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    Has anyone read "Reinventing Man" (1981) by I. Aleksander and P. Burnett?
Its about an architectural "neural net" model for the mind that, it is
claimed, has been constructed and is in use in Britain.  The claim is
further made that it can recognize, to a degree, faces (even faces which
are partially disguised).
    I. Aleksander, the then head of the British Cybernetics Society, has
made some remarkable claims about this machine.  I think his architectural
model is interesting, but haven't heard much about this machine, called
Wisard, outside of the book.
    If anyone else has read the book, or even actually seen this machine's
performance, I'd appreciate learning what you think of it.