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Subject: Re: neural networks
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 23:26:00 EDT
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In article <837@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>A recent issue of 'Science' had an article on 'neural networks', which,
>apparently consist of ...
etc.

To set the facts straight.
The name of the mag is Science 86 which is published by AAAS and is not
to be confused with the journal Science, also published by AAAS.

>They said incredibly little about the actual details of
>how each node operates, unfortunately.
Probably because its intended audience is rather broad - intelligent
people with no particular expertise or training assumed.
Kind of a Readers Digest for Yuppies with a high-tech inclinations.

>    So how about it?  Has anybody else heard of these things?  Is this 
>really a way of going about AI in a way which *may* be similar to what
>brains do?  Just exactly what algorithms are the nodes implementing, and
>how do you provide input and get output from them?  Does anyone know 
>where I could get more information about them?
You might try turning to the back of the magazine, to a section listing
articles for further, deeper reading.
Or you can look in today's paper (if you happen to read the NY Times) and
check the article on page D2 which announces the commercial availability
of the Connection Machine from a start-up concern in Cambridge.


Probably next week there will be ads on CBS during the evening news.

Steve Radtke
bellcore!u1100a!sr
Bell Communications Research
Piscataway, NJ