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From: ceemw@cee.hw.ac.uk (Marcus John Williams)
Subject: Searching for NN reference
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Hi there,

I was wondering whether anyone had heard the story about the neural
net that was implemented by the American Dept of Defense (??) that
attempted to classify photos of tanks as either russian or american.
Without going into the story too much, the outcome was a system that
classified tanks correctly (so the story goes). When the Berlin wall
came down and nice glossy photos of russian tanks were available somebody
dug up the network and tried it out and it failed miserably. Apparently
all the network had done was learn that american tank photos had good
lighting and russian photos (taken from spy planes?) were poor quality.

Anyhow, the long and short of it is I want to use this example in my
dissertation and need a reference for it. Any ideas as to where I could
find one - or even whether this story is true or not? Replies by email
please.

Thanks,

Marcus

+ Marcus Williams,             Dept Computing and Electrical Engineering +
+ ceemw@cee.hw.ac.uk           Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh         +
