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From: doug@dhw68k.cts.com (Doug Salot)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Query on History of NN's
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Date: 10 Mar 88 07:37:47 GMT
Reply-To: doug@dhw68k.cts.com (Doug Salot)
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I'm curious about what those who are familiar with neural-net literature
consider to be neural-net epochs.  What papers are considered seminal?
In a cursory examination of the literature, I'd have to say that the
history goes something like Turing (1936), McCulloch & Pitts (1943),
Hebb (1949), Rosenblatt (1966), Minsky & Papert (1969), and after that
it's not at all clear to me what happens.  Grossberg (late '70s)?
Wilshaw?  Sutton & Barto?  Hopfield?

Would you say Wiener and Cybernetics was a major influence?  What about
Leibniz or Shannon?

BTW, has anyone considered using Usenet as a large grained neural network
to which you throw out a question like "what is the meaning of life?" and
watch it converge on a solution?

Thanks in advance for helping me complete this partial match,
- Doug

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Doug Salot                            | {trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!feedme!doug
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