Connectionists: Connectionism, Turing, and the Big Picture

[S B Cooper]

In 2001, Cristof Teuscher's timely book from Springer on "Turing's 
Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures" reminded 
us that neural networks and basic computability theoretic research have 
together had a fruitful history.

The new network and conference series 'Computability in Europe' (its 
eurocentric title betraying its origins in a bid for EU funding) is built 
around the growing richness and diversity of computability theoretic 
research, and seeks to revitalise the Alan Turing approach of setting this 
in a broad and basic context. CiE 2007 - for details see its webpage:

http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/cie07.html

encourages the participation of connectionist and other computability 
related researchers who value novel interactions, and who like to place 
their "normal science" (to quote Thomas Kuhn) in a broader context.

Best wishes,

Barry Cooper
Coordinator, CiE

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