Across My Desk
Abstract
Across My Desk SAGE Publications, Inc.1987DOI: 10.1177/003754978704800301 Charles A. Pratt Neurocomputing Literature we have received recently on the Advanced Neurocomputer Applications Course, being taught at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), March 23 through 27 provides an interesting overview of this new computer architecture. The literature defines a "neural network" as "a cognitive information processing structure based upon models of brain function. In a more formal engineering context: a highly parallel dynamical system with the topology of a directed graph that can carry out information processing by means of its state response to continuous or initial input." Instructor for the course is Robert Hecht-Nielsen, PhD, chairman of the board and co-founder of the Hecht-Nielsen Neurocomputer Corporation in San Diego. Course literature goes on to state: Neurocomputing is a technology whose time has arrived. Neurocomputers will be used to augment conventional computers to solve problems that have eluded solution by traditional techniques alone. It now seems likely that they can solve many of the problems in sensor processing that other approaches have been struggling with since the dawn of the computer. For example, it is now anticipated that a single-board neurocomputer can be built to carry out