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From: olivier@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Olivier Brousse)
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Subject: Re: Query on History of NN's
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In article <5779@dhw68k.cts.com> doug@dhw68k.cts.com (Doug Salot) writes:
>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?
>
>Doug Salot                            | {trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!feedme!doug
>CSUF School of Computer Thought       | doug@dhw86k.cts.com
>"The cobweb behind the Orange Curtain"| If it needs a :-), it isn't funny.

Roughly speaking, I would say:

Late seventies: Kohonen, on associative memories
  "      "    : Grossberg, on Adaptive Resonance Theory
  "      "    : Barto and Sutton

Early eighties: McClelland, Rumelhart and the PDP group: Back-propagation,
                Boltzmann machines, Harmony theory, distributed representations,                cognitive process modeling.
  "      "    : Hopfield, on analogy with physical systems.



Olivier Brousse                       |
Department of Computer Science        |  olivier@boulder.colorado.EDU
U. of Colorado, Boulder               |