bruce@menkar.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bruce Mount 572-8408) (03/15/90)
This is a summary of suggestions I received... > ...for a beginning book on neural nets. >Something like "Neural nets for idiots" or "Neural nets made so simple >even YOU can understand it". I have no connection with any of the authors named below. --------------------------------------------------------------------- [From Russell Beale who warned me fair and square it was a shameless plug.] I have just co-written a book: "An Intro. to Neural Networks" aimed at complete beginners to the area. It'll be published in June by Adam Hilger, c. 250 pages, ISBN 0 85274 262 2 -- Russell Beale, Advanced Computer Architecture Group, -- Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, [Russell also included a very detailed and interesting table of contents for his book which I would be happy to forward to anyone] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone will recommend the PDP books to you so I'll go for: @book{Kohonen88, author = "Teuvo Kohonen", address = "New York", year = 1988, publisher = "Springer-Verlag", title = "Self-Organization and Associative Memory", edition = "second"} --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Parallel Distributed Processing Vol. 1 " by RUmelhart and McCleland, MIT Press "Neural Computing" by Wasserman, A Van Nostrand Reinhold Book. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== WARNING BRIEF PERSONAL NOTE: Although I tried to mail back a personal thanks to eash person that offered a suggestion, I was unable to get mail to Russell Beale. Russell, Wow! Thanks a lot! The table of contents for your upcoming book looks great. You can count on selling at least one copy of your book. I hope your book does well. Best of luck, --Bruce (If anyone else did not get a thank you from me, I'm sorry. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I sent one to everyone.) ====================================================================== ================================================= | Bruce Mount "Brevity is best" | | bruce@atria.gsfc.nasa.gov | =================================================