HAHN_K@DMRHRZ11.BITNET (02/07/89)
Perhaps some of you know that AI and Cognitive scientists are strongly interested in so called 'Neural Computing' or 'Parallel Distributed Processing'. Two computer scientists / psychologists published a three volume book about all that (James L. McClelland & David E. Rumelhart, 'Parallel Distributed Processing', MIT press 1986). In the third volume they added a lot (>1MB) of C code to demonstrate their approach. All the code was MS-DOS (I dunno what that means...) and partly UN*X compatible, but blew my ST. After some sleepless nights and the like I ported it to MWC and found most of the code to work fine, although I didn't try it heavily. The programs are VERY sophisticated and modifiable from the user's interface, so I just don't know if everything works as it should, but most things do. If someone would like to experiment with PDP and wants the code, let me know (you'll have to buy at least the third volume of the book, else you won't see the light). I know that the PDP research group who OWNS the copyright of the code would like to know of all ports to other computers, but the book only gives a surface mail address which I tried without success. So, if someone out there knows some of these guys, would you please tell them that I did it and ask if it's ok to pass the code around? Keep you neurons going! - Klaus. Klaus Hahn Marburg, West-Germany Bitnet: HAHN_K@DMRHRZ11 Bix: K_HAHN