pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) (08/18/90)
[This message cross posted to both comp.sys.next and comp.ai.neural-nets] Hello all, Does anyone know of any connectionist simulators for the NeXT? [I am aware of the Balancer.app demo program and Nexpert Object] If there aren't any (or even if there are :-), what would others like to see in a simulator for the NeXT? I've just bought a cube, and need a general purpose simulator (akin to SunNet, if anyone knows that one). If I can't find one, I'm planning on writting one of my own (as soon as I get a handle on Objective-C, that is :-), and would like comments, suggestions, etc from others who would be interested in such a beast (of course, anything I'd write will be available to the net). Here is MY wishlist: 1. Underlying the whole thing would be an Objective-C general "network" class, which could be sub-classed by others to add in new learning rules, etc. [i.e. "plug-in" learning rules and network architectures] 2. This class should have access to the DSP (or maybe Mathematica, which has access to the DSP) for its matix operations. 3. This class should be able to execute its operations as multiple threads. 4. This class should have access to Mathematica for graphics (e.g. 3-D plots of error space). 5. Since my main focus is correlational/Hebbian learning applied to Information Retrieval, ability to write the network to disk as a Digital Librarian index; and vice-versa. [this one may not be very important to anyone else] 6-1000. ? Anyone who has further ideas, please let me know. BTW, does anyone know if SunNet has be ported to X yet? I've only seen it running in SunView. Thanx, Paul Biron pbiron@ucsd.edu (619) 534-5758 Central University Library, Mail Code C-075-R Social Sciences DataBase Project University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca. 92093