text availability?

[Robert Elliott Smith]

Hi,
 I have acquired the responsibility of teaching a 
introductory neural nets course to an audience of graduate
students from a variety of engineering disciplines. This course
was previously taught from short-course notes with the PDP books
as additional material. I would prefer to teach this course from a text.
Several publishers have told me that they will have such books soon4{,
but the currently available texts I've seen aren't very satisfactory.
Does anyone know of a good text that is available (or will be before
spring)?

Please respond to me directly.
All comments appreciated.

Rob.
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Robert Elliott Smith
    Department of Engineering of Mechanics
    The University of Alabama
    P. O. Box 870278
    Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
<<email>> rob at galab2.mh.ua.edu 
<<phone>> (205) 348-4661
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