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From: breen@SILVER.BACS.INDIANA.EDU (elise breen)
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Subject: Re:  AI boards
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Date: 24 Aug 88 23:55:47 GMT
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I can recommend two neural net programs that are available at a reasonable
price:  
        1) The Parallel Distributed Processing workbook (Rumelhart & McClell-
           and) out on M.I.T. Press comes with excellent software for
           the low price of $24.00 for everything.  The software can be
           run under DOS or UNIX and is easily reconfigured for any 
           number of uses.  And of course, the workbook itself is in-
           valuable because it walks you through every stage of about
           seven different types of nets for different tasks.

        2) More expensive, and less well documented, the SIMNET program
           is available from Blair House Innovations, P.O. Box 7,
           Belcarra Park, Port Moody, BC  Canada  V3H 3E1.  It costs
           about $54.00.

The PDP workbook can probably be obtained off the shelf at any bookstore
with a largecomputing section, or could be easily special ordered.  It is
far more flexible for a person interested in pursuing a wide range of
net simulations and can't be beaten for the price.

Hope this helps!

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* Elise M. Breen                              breen@silver.bacs.indiana.edu  *
* Dept of Linguistics                                                        *
* Lindley Hall                              breen@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu       *
* Indiana University                                                         *
* Bloomington, IN  47405                                                     *
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