Shad Valley Calgary 2000

Neural Networks

Traditional computation methods are increasingly found to be too rigid to perform many tasks that humans find extremely simple; things like reading written characters, recognizing faces, and finding patterns.

Neural networks are revolutionizing these areas of artificial intelligence research. They are a computation method that is generally based on the structure of the human brain and they are becoming more and more common in day-to-day products. Over the week, we will be looking at the biological basis for neural networks and finding out what tasks they are good for. You will learn how to use a utility for constructing neural nets, and will create your own models.

Neural networks are one of fastest growing computational trends as we enter the 21st century — don’t miss out! Activate your own neurons and participate in this exciting seminar.

References

Brainwave

Building Neural Networks - Skapura

Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++ - Timothy Masters

Artificial Life - Steven Levy

ATR - Robokoneko

Building Artificial Brains - Sean McLennan