knareddy@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (krishna nareddy) (09/29/89)
In response to the many requests to summarize the availability of connectionist
simulators, here is the list of connectionist simulators I know about:
(1) The McClelland & Rumelhart book
``Experiments in Parallel Distributed Processing: Handbook of Programs
Experiments and Models'',
comes with a disk of public domain neural network software. Go for it!
(2) MIRRORS/II Connectionist Simulator Available
MIRRORS/II is a general-purpose connectionist simulator
which can be used to implement a broad spectrum of connec-
tionist (neural network) models.
MIRRORS/II is implemented in Franz Lisp and will run
under Opuses 38, 42, and 43 of Franz Lisp on UNIX systems.
It is currently running on a MicroVAX, VAX and SUN 3. It c
an be obtained at no charge via tape or ftp.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the software
send your U.S. Mail address via e-mail to
mirrors@cs.umd.edu
or
...!uunet!mimsy!mirrors
or send your U.S. Mail address to
Lynne D'Autrechy
University of Maryland
Department of Computer Science
College Park, MD 20742
and they will send you back a license which you must sign and
return to us and further instructions on how to obtain the
MIRRORS/II software and manual.
(3) There is a connectionist simulator available with the University of
Rochester. It can be ftp'd from cs.rochester.edu free of cost. It comes with
a graphics interface for Sun (Sunview) and can also run without a graphic
i/f. BTW, it is made for the SUN workstation.
It is available for free by anonymous ftp in pub/rcs at cs.rochester.edu.
If you cannot ftp, send a mail request to:
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
c/o Ms. Peg Meeker
for a tape and manual at about $150/-
(4) There is a package for Mac II developed at Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. It
is called Mactivation and can be ftp'd from pub dir of boulder.colorado.edu.
(5) George Mason Univ. has a back prop simulator
We have a back prop simulator that is user-friendly and robust, comes
with a user tutorial, incorporates some new speedup techniques, and
runs on 8088, 802/386 processors unMS-DOS as well as under Unix
(actually DEC Ultrix). I can make one or more flavors of the object code
available to users via ftp if desired; the source is very portable C
code, needing at most some modification as regards calling a random
number generator; only two lines were changed in porting the MS_Dos
version to a VAX 8530 under Ultrix. Source code can be licensed from
my University, but pricing, etc. hasn't been work out as yet.
Eugene M. Norris
Associate Professor of Computer Science
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030 (703)323-2713 enorris@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
Please contact me if I can be of any further help.
Thank you,
krishna
knareddy@ub.d.umn.edu
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