don@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO) (11/24/89)
In article <239@berlioz.nsc.com>, andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head ) writes: > In article <1105@m3.mfci.UUCP>, colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes: >> I have volunteered to help a local high school with computer-related >> science projects, and one of the students wants to do a project >> on "machine learning"(didn't we use to call that "AI"?), perhaps >> contrasting the neural networks approach against the rule-based >> approach. > > I'd advise that the quickest route for a one-semester blast-through would > be "Explorations in PDP" - the third in the series by Rummelhart and > McClelland, MIT Press. I seem to recall that sometime back in the dim dark past, "PDP" meant "Programmed Data Processor", as in PDP-11... (sorry, couldn't resist it 8-). Don Stokes ZL2TNM / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand__________don@gp.govt.nz________ Things get worse under pressure.