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From: demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David E Demers)
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Subject: Re: Need some intros to Neural Networks...
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In article <1790001@vx2.NYU.EDU> spector@vx2.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes:
>Can anyone point me to some good intro texts on neural networks?
>Preferable some thing with some good examples in C...


I'm not sure that I'd call it an intro text, but you will no doubt
have many people refer you to Parallel Distributed Processing, by
Rumelhart, McClelland and the PDP Research Group, MIT Press, 1986.
Volume 3 is entitled Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing
and comes with IBM PC software and lots of examples.  You can play
with the code as much as you like.

There are several introductory texts rumored; Addison-Wesley will
be publishing Hecht-Nielsen's book, Neurocomputing, "soon".  This
is engineering oriented, but what I've seen doesn't involve any
code for simulating nets.  It talks more about implementing neural
nets in hardware (and not just HNC hardware...).
There will no doubt be many other books soon, since this is now a
hot topic.  I hope (in vain, for certain), we don't see the glut of
garbage books like the PC industry gave us.

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