Neural Networks

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Three hours of lecture in the lab per week Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Computer Science or Mathematics Graduate Program Covers the basic ideas of distributed computation with many simple processing units, similar to the neurons of the brain. Topics include: Hopfield style networks applied to optimization problems, and the backpropagation method applied to pattern classification problems. Additional topics include associate memory, binary vs. analog networks, simulated annealing.