A computer architecture, implementable in either hardware or software, modeled after biological neural networks. Like the biological system in which the processing capability is a result of the interconnection strengths between arrays of nonlinear processing nodes, computerized neural networks, often called perceptrons or multilayer connectionist models, consist of neuron-like units. A homogeneous group of units makes up a layer. These networks are good at pattern recognition. They are adaptive, performing tasks by example, and thus are better for decision-making than are linear learning machines or cluster analysis. They do not require explicit programming.
    

Neural Networks, Computer

Catalogue

Galatea 2.2 / Richard Powers.

Talking nets : an oral history of neural networks / edited by James A. Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld.

Enchanted looms : conscious networks in brains and computers / Rodney Cotterill.

Darwin among the machines : the evolution of global intelligence / George B. Dyson.

The hunt for AI.