From: prechelt@i41s14.ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions -- weekly reminder
Supersedes: <nn_remind.posting_714666420@i41s14.ira.uka.de>
Followup-To: comp.ai.neural-nets
Date: 30 Aug 1992 00:30:22 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Expires: 13 Sep 1992 00:28:03 GMT
Reply-To: prechelt@ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt)
NNTP-Posting-Host: i41s14.ira.uka.de
Keywords: FAQ, answers, monthly posting, reference, pointer
Originator: prechelt@i41s14

Last-modified: 92/03/30

This is a reminder for the existence of a monthly posting to the 
Usenet newsgroup comp.ai.neural-nets. The posting is called 
   FAQ in comp.ai.neural-nets
where FAQ stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'.

Its purpose is to provide basic information for individuals who are
new to the field of neural networks or are just beginning to read this 
group. It shall help to avoid lengthy discussion of questions that usually 
arise for beginners of one or the other kind.


>>>>> SO, PLEASE, SEARCH THIS POSTING FIRST IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION <<<<<

                           AND

>>>>> DON'T POST ANSWERS TO FAQs: POINT ASKERS TO THE FAQ POSTING  <<<<<


The FAQ posting departs to comp.ai.neural-nets on the 28th of every month.
It is also sent to the group news.answers where it should be available
at any time (ask your news manager).
This reminder is posted every Sunday.

The FAQ posting is archived in the periodic posting archive on
"pit-manager.mit.edu" [18.172.1.27] (and on some other hosts as well).
Look in the anonymous ftp directory "/pub/usenet/news.answers",
the filename is 'neural-net-faq'.

If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive
by mail server as well.  Send an E-mail message to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on
separate lines for more information.

The following questions are answered in the FAQ posting:

(Please have a look at the conventions in Answer 1 at least)

============================== Questions ==============================

1.)  What is this newsgroup for ?  How shall it be used ?
2.)  What is a neural network (NN) ?
3.)  What can you do with a Neural Network and what not ?
4.)  Who is concerned with Neural Networks ?

6.)  What does 'backprop' mean ?
7.)  How many learning methods for NNs exist ?  Which ?
8.)  What about Genetic Algorithms ?

10.) Good introductory literature about Neural Networks ?
11.) Any journals and magazines about Neural Networks ?
12.) The most important conferences concerned with Neural Networks ?
13.) Neural Network Associations ?
14.) Other sources of information about NNs ?

15.) Public-Domain software packages for NN simulation ?
16.) Commercial software packages for NN simulation ?
17.) Neural Network hardware ?

19.) Databases for experimentation with NNs ?

========================================================================

  Lutz

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