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From: jn@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jai Natarajan)
Subject: Re: Help! easy texts wanted
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In article <37krdi$33h@jabba.cybernetics.net>, glipton@cybernetics.net (Gary Lipton) writes:
|> In article <37kl6p$510@newshost.fiu.edu> jhyams01@solix.fiu.edu (jeffrey a hyams) writes:
|> >I'm an undergraduate student very interested in ai's and nueral nets.
|> >anybody know some really good straightforward books and/or software
|> >for designing begining simple nueral nets?
|> 
|> 
|> You might try "Understanding Neural Networks" by Maureen Caudill &
|> Charles Butler.  It's a two-volume set and comes with simulators.
|> Published by MIT Press.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Gary Lipton
In fact Maureen Caudill had an excellent series of introductory
articles in AI Expert 88 - I think 5 issues in a row. These talk
about the basic models and also have CODE for the Mac. 
Another good overview is in a book by P.D. Wasserman (the exact name eludes
me), publ. van Nostrand ..
Jai Natarajan
