Can anyone answer this question.

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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 11:02:07 EST
From: nunez at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Fernando J Nunez)
To: Connectionists-Request at cs.cmu.edu
Subject: A new VLSI-NN system?


I am interested in all kinds of VLSI-NNs. In the process of gathering
information about implementations, I found a short and confusing
article in BusinessWeek, March 6, 1989, p. 103. I have extracted
the following:

"Neural net chips just won't be able to take the heat. That's because
neural nets are based on analog technology, .... Such microcircuitry
is much more temperature-sensitive than digital transistors...
So Steven G. Morton,a former ITT Corp. researcher, formed Oxford
Computer in Oxford, Conn., to pioneer neural nets based on digital
memory-chip technology. Although Morton's ideas were met with widespread
skepticism, scientists at MIT recently scrutinized his designs and
pronounced them apparently sound."

I attribute the contradictions, or at least, inaccuracies to the lack
of audit of the article by an expert.

I would appreciate if someone could tell me where can I found
a description of this work. I hope it won't be in FORBES magazine.
Here come my name and electronic address.

	Fernando J. Nunez
        nunez at en.ecn.purdue.edu