Neural networks : computers with intuition / Soren Brunak, Benny Lautrup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunak, Sorren.

Contributor:

Lautrup, Benny.

Standardized Title:

Neurale netvaerk. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neural computers.

Neural networks (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Teaneck, NJ : World Scientific Pub. Co., c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Both specialists and laymen will enjoy reading this book. Using a lively, non-technical style and images from everyday life, the authors present the basic principles behind computing and computers. The focus is on those aspects of computation that concern networks of numerous small computational units, whether biological neural networks or artificial electronic devices.

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; WHOLESALE RIDDLES; THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE; THE NATURE OF MATTER; THE NECESSITY FOR THE MIND; THE BRAIN'S WETWARE; MEASURES; BIOLOGICAL NEURONS; MAPS IN THE HEAD; KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION; STORY OF A; MEMORY; DNA AS MEMORY; FUNCTIONS OF MEMORY; THE CLOAKROOM; THE LOST-PROPERTY OFFICE; THE DIGITAL COMPUTER MEMORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; CALCULATION; DETERMINISM; UNPREDICTABILITY; THE MERRY-GO-ROUND; THE WORLD'S SMALLEST COMPUTERS; UNIVERSALITY; FRIED EGGS AND INFORMATION; INFORMATION AS WASTE; INFORMATION AS HEAT; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; VON NEUMANN'S BOTTLENECK

SERIAL ARCHITECTUREPARALLEL ARCHITECTURE; MASS BAPTISM; THE CONSTRUCTION BOSS'S TRICK; CHIEFS AND INDIANS; THE CONNECTION MACHINE®; BINARY NEURAL NETWORKS; THE SYMMETRICAL NETWORK; THE ACTIVITY OF ARTIFICIAL NEURONS; DYNAMICS; THE FRUSTRATED TRIANGLE; NONLINEARITY; IN OR OUT OF STEP; THE WISDOM OF THE CANE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; THE MEMORIES EVAPORATE; UNLEARNING; DREAMING; PERCEPTRONS; ONE-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; HIDDEN LAYERS; BACK-PROPAGATION OF ERRORS; GRADED NEURONS; GENERALIZATION; APPLICATIONS OF PERCEPTRONS; WORD DIVISION; NETTALK; COMPUTO, ERGO SUM?; COMMUNICATION; INTUITION

CALCULATIONAL PARADIGMSSIMULATION; SYMBIOSIS; AFTERWORD; A COMPUTER'S DESTINY; FURTHER READING; INDEX

Notes:

Translation of: Neural netvaerk.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-173) and index.

ISBN:

9789814343039

981434303X