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Neuron Digest Volume 03 Number 13
NEURON Digest Fri Jul 15 07:21:20 CDT 1988 Volume 3 / Issue 13
Today's Topics:
a program for dot-pattern for N.N (looking for)
neural net simulation package
Theories of Higher Brain Functions via Cerebral Neocortex ?
Applications of N.Nets
IEEE San Diego Conference Proceedings
Grossberg's ART1 code
Re: IEEE San Diego Conference Proceedings
Lee Sailer --> Stephen Gallant
Text recognition
Rochester Connectionist Simulator -- ANNOUNCEMENTS
Neural and Brain Modeling - MacGregor
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Date: 6 Jul 88 12:18:24 GMT
From: Fourati Mourad <kddlab!icot32!nttlab!shzkgw!suvax0!fourati@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: a program for dot-pattern for N.N (looking for)
I'm using Neural networks trained with Back propagation algorithm. I need a
program to show on screen the state of the connections weights by dot patterns
(or square patterns : specifying the weights by blackening squares). If
someone have a general program for that purpose, would you like to email it to
me please.[We have a 4.3 BSD UNIX on VAX and SONY WORKSTATION].
Thanks in advance
email to Mourad FOURATI
fourati@suvax0.shizuoka.JUNET
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Date: 4 Jul 88 04:51:42 GMT
From: killer!tness7!tness1!nuchat!uhnix1!sun1.cs.uh.edu!cristina@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Subject: neural net simulation package
I am currently working on general network programming environment for
defining, generating, and modeling of artificial networks. In
particular, I'm interested in distributed and parallel implementations
of this kind of systems. I read some news about the Rochester Simulation
Package and MACIE. I would be grateful if someone could send me paper
references or contact addresses about research and developments in
this area.
Thank you.
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Cristina Ip, U. of Houston Computer Science
Internet: cristina@sun2.cs.uh.edu
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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 88 23:44:52 EST
From: munnari!cheops.eecs.unsw.oz.au!ashley@uunet.UU.NET (Ashley M. Aitken)
Subject: Theories of Higher Brain Functions via Cerebral Neocortex ?
G'Day !
I am presently undertaking to review theories and models of the
cerebral neo-cortex which aim to explain higher brain functions.
To-date I am familiar with the following
Neuronal Group Selection Edelman, G.
Value Unit Encoding Ballard, D.
Neocortex Theory Marr, D.
I would be most grateful if anyone knowing of any references to
other theories or models could please e-mail me the relevant
information. Any leads will be most appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
sincerely,
Ashley Aitken
E-MAIL :
ashley@cheops.unsw.oz ACSnet
ashley%cheops.unsw.oz@uunet.uu.net ARPAnet
ashley@cheops.unsw.oz.au ARPAnet
{uunet,ukc,ubc-vision,mcvax}!munnari!cheops.unsw.oz!ashley UUCP
ashley%cheops.unsw.oz@australia CSnet
ashley%cheops.unsw.oz@uk.ac.ukc JAnet
POSTAL :
Academic Address: Residential Address:
Computer Science Department, EECS, c/o Basser College,
University of New South Wales, The Kensington Colleges,
Box 1,PO KENSINGTON,N.S.W.,2033, Box 24,PO KENSINGTON,3033.
AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA.
Ph. Aust (02) 697-4055 Ph. Aust (02) 663-8117
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Date: 29 Jun 88 11:32:06 GMT
From: Simon Peter Gatrall <sg1q+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Applications of N.Nets
Could someone please send me and/or post some references to some of the gee-wiz
applications of neural-networks. (I'm writing a paper)
-Simon Gatrall sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: 21 Jun 88 21:02:59 GMT
From: Dan Olson <ssc-vax!dano@BEAVER.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: IEEE San Diego Conference Proceedings
I would like to buy the proceedings for this year's conference
in San Diego, but am not planning to attend. Can anyone tell
me who to contact or how to order? Hopefully the price won't
be as much as registering for the conference.
Thanks,
Dan Olson
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Date: 22 Jun 88 17:46:50 GMT
From: David E Demers <beowulf!demers@SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: IEEE San Diego Conference Proceedings
In article <2025@ssc-vax.UUCP> dano@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dan Olson) writes:
>I would like to buy the proceedings for this year's conference
>in San Diego, but am not planning to attend. Can anyone tell
>me who to contact or how to order? Hopefully the price won't
>be as much as registering for the conference.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan Olson
As far as I know, the price has not yet been decided. Last year's
cost $70 after the fact; this year's proceedings are rumored to be
more, probably about $100. Two sources: IEEE publications, which
is your best bet. I don't have the address handy, check your latest
SPECTRUM. Also, last year the conference organizers had a few
extras available : contact Nomi Feldman IEEE ICNN 88 conference
secretariat, 3770 Tansy St, San Diego, CA 92121.
A third possibility is to find someone who is going & have them get
you a copy. Proceedings are supposed to be available at the
conference (instead of in December, like last year...).
There are a lot of very good papers submitted, these proceedings
should be excellent.
Dave DeMers
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
UCSD
(demers@cs.ucsd.edu)
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 88 08:34:15 EDT
From: "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevin@cch.bbn.com>
Subject: Lee Sailer --> Stephen Gallant
For a pointer to Stephen Gallant at Northeastern, I suggest you try
one of the following:
mckee%corwin.css.northeastern.edu@relay.cs.net (George McKee)
hafner%northeastern.csnet@relay.cs.net (Carole Hafner)
(The two paths after the % may be working alternatives for both logins.
I don't know the way from bitnet.)
You might also try gallant or sgallant with the above paths to see if
you get through. Allow for the fact that it is summer and he may
well be away at conferences and the like.
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Date: 6 Jul 88 19:19:59 GMT
From: Arun Rao <cs.utexas.edu!milano!pp!cadillac!rao@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
Subject: Text recognition
This is the first time I'm posting anything on this net, so I was not
able to retrieve the address of the person who wanted to know about
existing text recognition software using neural nets.
I have a program which implements Grossberg's ART1 (with some modifications)
for text recognition. It is still rudimentary, but is capable of adaptively
learning to recognize a bit-mapped set of characters at its input. Access after
learning is virtually instantaneous, and the number of characters it can store
depends on how many connections you can simulate in your machine. I have tried
the program with a large number of input nodes and there are no problems. The
time taken by the network to learn (I refer to real time, as in the time taken
if the network were to be built in hardware) does not scale up to any great
degree with the number of nodes (CPU time obviously does).
Arun Rao
Arizona State University
(Currently a summer intern at MCC)
--
Arun Rao @ MCC VLSI CAD Program [512] 339-3793
P.O. Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720
ARPA: rao@mcc.com
UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech,pyramid}!ut-sally!im4u!milano!bell!rao
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Date: 12 Jul 88 19:31:51 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!milano!pp!cadillac!rao@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
Subject: Grossberg's ART1 code
This is with reference to a posting I made some time ago
regarding a program which simulates Grossberg's ART1 and
uses it to recognize bit-mapped characters.
I have received a lot of mail asking me for the source code
of the program. I appear to have given the impression that I
was intending the program for general distribution.
I sincerely regret that I cannot comply with requests for the
source code at the moment - I will, however, post a message on the
net as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I am willing to field any questions (however detailed)
as to methodology and implementation. I spent quite a lot of time
battling through impenetrable prose, and I'm quite willing to share
any insights that I might have gained.
Arun Rao
(Post Aug 15th e-mail address: rao%enuxc1.asu.edu@relay.cs.net)
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Date: 7 Jul 88 19:00:05 GMT
From: Liudvikas Bukys <rochester!bukys@CU-ARPA.CS.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: Rochester Connectionist Simulator -- ANNOUNCEMENTS
(1) The Rochester Connectionist Simulator (version 4.1) is now available
via anonymous FTP from CS.Rochester.EDU. It is in the public/rcs
directory. Read the README file there for more information.
The distribution is too large to mail; the compressed tar file is
837K bytes, and the uncompressed tar file is 3 Megabytes.
If you have TeX and a PostScript printer, you should be able to produce
your own copy of the 181-page manual. If you want a paper copy of the
manual anyway, send a check for $10 per manual (payable to the
University of Rochester) to Rose Peet at the above address.
If you are unable to obtain anonymous FTP access to the simulator
distribution, you can still order a copy the old way. Contact
Rose Peet
Computer Science Department
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
(USA)
or <connect@cs.rochester.edu>, and she will send you the
approriate forms.
We are currently charging $150 for a distribution tape and a manual.
We do not have the facilities for generating invoices, so payment is
required with any order.
(2) We are setting up electronic mailing lists for use by
the users of the simulator. If you have the simulator,
please sign up!
You can reach other users of the simulator via the users' mailing list:
<simulator-users@cs.rochester.edu>
If you are not on this mailing list, and wish to be added,
send a note to
<simulator-request@cs.rochester.edu>
Please send bug reports to
<simulator-bugs@cs.rochester.edu>
(3) Official bug patches to date (to be found in the FTP directory):
rcs_v4.1.patch.01 fixes a SERIOUS problem in the logging feature.
rcs_v4.1.patch.02 fixes some minor syntactic problems in the doc.
The patches can be applied by hand if necessary, but you will
make your life easier if you obtain the widely-available
"patch" program, and redirect each patch file into "patch -p".
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Date: 5 Jul 88 00:20:02 GMT
From: Alan Lee Wendt <wendt@arizona.edu>
Subject: Neural and Brain Modeling - MacGregor
Good book, if you think that we should model the brains of sea
slugs before trying to model those of human beans. It's got
lots of mud-level neural simulation code in FORTRAN, plus
an incredible number of references to other work. The high-level
connectionist work is less thoroughly covered. The author is
at UC Boulder Aerospace Engineering Dept. (Here, go put this
brain in the wind-tunnel ...)
Alan Wendt
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