From prechelt@ira.uka.de Sun Jun 19 21:56:05 EDT 1994 Article: 17237 of comp.ai.neural-nets Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai.neural-nets:17237 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!prechelt From: prechelt@i41s14.ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Frequently Asked Questions -- weekly reminder Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.ai.neural-nets Date: 13 Jun 1994 07:22:50 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 72 Expires: 27 Jun 1994 07:22:49 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: prechelt@ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt) NNTP-Posting-Host: i41s25.ira.uka.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: FAQ, answers, monthly posting, reference, pointer Originator: prechelt@i41s25 Last-modified: 93/04/26 This is a reminder for the existence of a monthly posting to the Usenet newsgroup comp.ai.neural-nets. The posting is called FAQ in comp.ai.neural-nets where FAQ stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'. Its purpose is to provide basic information for individuals who are new to the field of neural networks or are just beginning to read this group. It shall help to avoid lengthy discussion of questions that usually arise for beginners of one or the other kind. >>>>> SO, PLEASE, SEARCH THIS POSTING FIRST IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION <<<<< AND >>>>> DON'T POST ANSWERS TO FAQs: POINT ASKERS TO THE FAQ POSTING <<<<< The FAQ posting departs to comp.ai.neural-nets on the 28th of every month. It is also sent to the group news.answers where it should be available at any time (ask your news manager). This reminder is posted every Sunday. The FAQ posting is archived in the periodic posting archive on host rtfm.mit.edu (and on some other hosts as well). Look in the anonymous ftp directory "/pub/usenet/news.answers", the filename is 'neural-net-faq'. If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive by mail server as well. Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more information. The following questions are answered in the FAQ posting: (Please have a look at the conventions in Answer 1 at least) ============================== Questions ============================== 1.) What is this newsgroup for ? How shall it be used ? 2.) What is a neural network (NN) ? 3.) What can you do with a Neural Network and what not ? 4.) Who is concerned with Neural Networks ? 6.) What does 'backprop' mean ? 7.) How many learning methods for NNs exist ? Which ? 8.) What about Genetic Algorithms ? 9.) What about Fuzzy Logic ? 10.) Good introductory literature about Neural Networks ? 11.) Any journals and magazines about Neural Networks ? 12.) The most important conferences concerned with Neural Networks ? 13.) Neural Network Associations ? 14.) Other sources of information about NNs ? 15.) Public-Domain software packages for NN simulation ? 16.) Commercial software packages for NN simulation ? 17.) Neural Network hardware ? 19.) Databases for experimentation with NNs ? ======================================================================== Lutz -- Lutz Prechelt (email: prechelt@ira.uka.de) | Whenever you Institut fuer Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation | complicate things, Universitaet Karlsruhe; 76128 Karlsruhe; Germany | they get (Voice: ++49/721/608-4068, FAX: ++49/721/694092) | less simple.