NN texts: a summary.

[Robert Elliott Smith]

Dear Connectionists,
 A week ago I posted a message requesting recomendations for 
possible texts for a  introductory, graduate level engineering course 
neural nets. I received some interesting responses (thanks), so I decided to 
summarize to the net.  I'll keep my editorializing to a minimum, since
I have not seen any of these texts yet. If you want to comparison shop,
you'll have to do like me and call the publishers.

The following texts were recomended:

	Neurocomputing by Robert Hecht-Nielsen
	Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1990
                   (this received the most recomendations by far)
                   (a solution manual is rumoured to be available soon.)
                    
                   Neural Networks in Artificial Intelligence
                   by Matthew Zeidenberg
                   Ellis Horwood Ltd., distributed in the US by
                   Simon and Schuster
	(sounded awfully interesting)

                   Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling
                   by Daniel S. Levine 
                   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
                   (not available yet)

	Adaptive Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
	by Y. Pao
	(no detailed bib entry, sorry)

	Neurocomputing (??)
                 	by Wasserman
	(no detailed bib entry, sorry)

	Artificial Neural Systems
	by Patrick Simpson
	Pergamon Press

	
That's it. I hope some of you find this helpful.

Sincerely,
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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