Neural networks
The human brain performs perceptual tasks such as visual pattern recognition, distinguishing acoustical harmonics, and speech understanding remarkably well, but such cognitive tasks remain difficult for digital computers to accomplish.
Abstract
The human brain performs perceptual tasks such as visual pattern recognition, distinguishing acoustical harmonics, and speech understanding remarkably well. Such cognitive tasks remain difficult for digital computers to accomplish. The promise of neural computing relies on the rapid solution of such problems through massive parallelism, where information is not transferred between computing units, but is encoded through patterns of interconnectivity in a distributed fashion. The study of neural networks includes the notions of connectionism, parallel distributed processing, self-adaptive systems, and self-organizing systems.