haase@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Mark Haase) (06/29/91)
Dear Net Users, I am a mathematics graduate student at the University of Chicago, beginning to conduct research within the field of neural nets. This summer, Chicago is running a summer program for gifted high school students. They will have access to a mac lab. We would like to graphically show them a neural element, how it fires under various circumstances, and the weights. We plan to introduce them to the method of gradient decent. Are there any basic demo programs that are easy for a high-scool student to run that we may run on the Mac Plus or Mac II (even Sun 3)? My second question is in regard to medical simulation software. As you might well know, a wealth of computational complexity of neural computation in mammals is found in the geometric configuration of the dendritic branches and even specially configured cells that perform unique functions (such as those that do not have an axon). Is there a program that utilizes the dendritic structure/cell structure? How about one which models epileptic phenomenon? How about hallucinatory phenomenon in the visual cortex? Please E-Mail me any results at haase@zaphod.uchicago.edu. Thank You Very Much