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From: manj@brand.usc.edu (B. S. Manjunath)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: implementation of "traveling salesman algorithm" on connection machine
Keywords: TSP, connection machine
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Date: 7 Feb 89 17:00:56 GMT
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In article <6173@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mbkennel@bogey.UUCP (Matthew B. Kennel) writes:
 >In article <1233@usfvax2.EDU> pollock@usfvax2.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) writes:
 >>Funny you should ask; we spent an entire lecture today discussing this
 ......
 >>
 >>Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)	pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu
 >>Usenet:		...!{uflorida, codas}!usfvax2!pollock
 >>GEnie:		W.POLLOCK
 >
 >
 >I took professor Eric Baum's seminar in neural computation this past
  [deleted]
 >don't remember the authors, but I believe the paper was titled something
 >like "On the Stability of Hopfield and Tank's Solution to the TSP
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >Problem".  
 ^^^^^^^^
 >
 I believe the reference is :
  " On the stability of the TSP problem algorithm of Hopfield and 
    Tank" by G.V. Wilson and G.S. Pawley (dept. of physics,Univ. of 
    Edinburgh, UK)   in Biological Cybernetics,58 ,63-70 1988.

 >My judgement is totally neutral---I know Prof. Hopfield is an excellent
 >and honest scientist---but I thought I should add that there may be a
 >second side to the story.

 >
 >Matt Kennel

 >(this is line counter fodder)

 bs manjunath