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From: leasure@sabbath.rutgers.edu (David E. Leasure)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Neural Networks - Pointers to good texts?
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 23:30:21 EDT
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 wcalvin@well.UUCP (William Calvin) writes:
>	We brain researchers sure get tired of hearing neural-like networks
>referred to as "neural networks", an established subject for 25 years since
>the days of Limulus lateral inhibition.  Calling silicon networks "neural" is
>about like the hype in the early days when every digital computer was 
>called a "brain" by the media.

Maybe we could all agree on a more faithful/less ingratiating term?
Maybe connectionist processing models or neuromorphic (after
Touretzky), or fine-grained parallel processing? (even Rumelhart's
Parallel Distributed Processing?)

David E. Leasure
Rutgers/AT&T