Neural Networks: The Early Days

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2 (NIPS 1989)

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Jack Cowan

Abstract

A short account is given of various investigations of neural network properties, beginning with the classic work of McCulloch & Pitts. Early work on neurodynamics and statistical mechanics, analogies with magnetic materials, fault tolerance via parallel distributed processing, memory, learning, and pattern recognition, is described.