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From: giusto@sunybcs.uucp (Susan Giusto)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Contest to rename non-neural "Neural Networks"
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Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 12:43:06 EDT
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Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science - Cognitive Vision Group
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Keywords: neurobiology, retina, distributed, plastic
Summary: connectionist networks, neural nets, neurophysiology

In article <4210@well.UUCP> wcalvin@well.UUCP (William Calvin) writes:
>
>(see my article "The brain as a Darwin Machine" shortly to appear in
>_Nature_).  
> 
>  So how about a contest to devise a new name for this wonderful new field
>that will give it an identify respectful of, but independent from, the
>endeavors concerning real neural nets?  Some possibilities:
>       Pseudo-neural networks        
>       Neuroid networks        
>       Neural-like networks        
>       Plastic networks        
>       Parallel Distributed Nets        
>       Cellular Networks        
>       Dry Nets 

None of the hitherto suggested names really fully comprise the meaning
of what we are trying to achieve.

Look at what we are trying to convey... the "computer-simulated", or
"computational-approach" to the neurophysiological phenomenon.  We have to
embody this idea... right ?

Well, he goes my stab at a few names to possible use:

        Simu-Nets ---------------- Simulated Neural Nets
	Compu-Con Nets ----------- Computational Silicon Nets
	Neo-Neural Nets ---------- What we are dealing with is a 'New'
				   approach to Neural Nets
	Silicon Neural Nets (SNN's) Nice acronym could catch on well
	Auto Nets ---------------- Automated Neural Nets
	Chip Nets ---------------- Where these new neural netwrks live

Well, this is just a few... there was a rather interesting on this
naming problem in my local environs... These were some of the best.

Enjoy !
				Susan M. Giusto
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				art and science can exist together)
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