What have neural networks achieved?

[Lee Giles]

Michael Arbib wrote:

> 
> b) What are the "big success stories" (i.e., of the kind the general public
> could understand) for neural networks contributing to the construction of
> "artificial" brains, i.e., successfully fielded applications of NN hardware
> and software that have had a major commercial or other impact?
> 
> 
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>  Michael A. Arbib
>  USC Brain Project
>  University of Southern California
>  Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
>  arbib at pollux.usc.edu
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> 

For those of you who might have missed it, an entire issue of IEEE TNN
was devoted to "practical uses of NNs." The issue was

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Volume 8, Number 4 July 1997 

Table of Contents plus page numbers are below:

827... Neural Fraud Detection in Credit Card Operations
     Jose R. Dorronsoro, Francisco Ginel, Carmen
     Sanchez, and Carlos Santa Cruz

835... ANNSTLF--A Neural-Network-Based Electric Load Forecasting
System
     Alireza Khotanzad, Member, IEEE, Reza
     Afkhami-Rohani, Tsun-Liang Lu, Alireza Abaye,
     Member, IEEE, Malcolm Davis, and Dominic J.
     Maratukulam

847... A Deployed Engineering Design Retrieval System Using Neural
Networks
     Scott D. G. Smith, Richard Escobedo, Michael
     Anderson, and Thomas P. Caudell

852... Modeling Complex Environmental Data
     Chris M. Roadknight, Graham R. Balls, Gina E.
     Mills, and Dominic Palmer-Brown

863... Neural Networks and Traditional Time Series Methods: A
Synergistic Combination in State Economic Forecasts
     James V. Hansen and Ray D. Nelson

874... Reliable Roll Force Prediction in Cold Mill Using Multiple
Neural Networks
     Sungzoon Cho, Member, IEEE, Yongjung Cho, and
     Sungchul Yoon

883... Dynamic Neural Control for a Plasma Etch Process
     Jill P. Card, Member, IEEE, Debbie L. Sniderman,
     and Casimir Klimasauskas

902... Application of Neural Networks to Software Quality Modeling of
a Very Large Telecommunications System
     Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Member, IEEE, Edward B.
     Allen, Member, IEEE, John P. Hudepohl, and
     Stephen J. Aud

910... Neural Intelligent Control for a Steel Plant
     Gerard Bloch, Member, IEEE, Franck Sirou,
     Vincent Eustache, and Philippe Fatrez

919... Characterization of Aluminum Hydroxide Particles from the Bayer
Process Using Neural Network and Bayesian Classifiers
     Anthony Zaknich, Member, IEEE

932... Fuzzy Neural Networks for Machine Maintenance in Mass Transit
Railway System
     James N. K. Liu, Member, IEEE, and K. Y. Sin

942... Dynamic Security Contingency Screening and Ranking Using Neural
Networks
     Yakout Mansour, Fellow, IEEE, Ebrahim Vaahedi,
     Senior Member, IEEE, and Mohammed A.
     El-Sharkawi, Fellow, IEEE

951... Self-Calibration of a Space Robot
     Vicente Ruiz de Angulo and Carme Torras

964... Cork Quality Classification System using a Unified Image
Processing and Fuzzy-Neural Network Methodology
     Joongho Chang, Gunhee Han, Jose M. Valverde,
     Norman C. Griswold, Senior Member, IEEE, J.
     Francisco Duque-Carrillo, Member, IEEE, and
     Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, Fellow, IEEE


Those of you who are IEEE members and have access can download these
papers from
http://opera.ieee.org/opera/browse.html

Best regards

Lee Giles
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