On 17 Dec 2003 15:55:57 -0500, Ashlie Benjamin Hocking
<abh2n at cobra.cs.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>SeeBelow at SeeBelow.Nut writes:
>>> Do some readers of this newsgroup have an interest in Artificial Neural
>> Networks?
>>>> Mitchell Timin
>>>> --
>> "Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in
>> pursuit of the goal." - Friedrich Nietzsche
>>>>http://annevolve.sourceforge.net is what I'm into nowadays.
>> Humans may write to me at this address: zenguy at shaw dot ca
>>Some of us definitely do - but not all, I'm sure. I work with a
>neuroscientist who has created a very successful neural network model
>of the CA3 region of the hippocampus. (The model has also been
>extended to other areas of the brain, but the CA3 region is definitely
>the model's focus.)
>There are two very different kinds of "artificial neural networks".
One kind, like the modelling of the CA3 cells, is a computational
technique to build models incorporating as much as possible about the
known experimental details of real neurons -- the details being far
too complex to understand without simulation. The other is to build
networks of cells that only vaguely resemble true neurons but which
can exhibit behavior reminiscent of what nervous systems do: learn,
detect or generate patterns, .... These are two very distinct areas
of work. And yes, there are certainly people here interested in each
of these areas. Perhaps even some interested in both (and in
neither). There are even those who claim that work in the second
category is useful in understanding the first.