procedural vs connectionist p.r.

[Tom Burrow]

Sorry, this isn't much of a contribution -- mostly a request for
your replies.  If you are not going to repost them via the 
connectionist mailing list, could you mail them to me?

No, for my mini-contribution: Yan Lecun, et al's work as seen
in NIPS 90 on segmented character recognition is fairly impressive,
and they claim that their results are state of the art.

Tom Burrow