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Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution

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From: Louis Savain
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00
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Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution

[English]

RESEARCH RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT

September 23, 1997

  Marengo Media, Inc. is a software development firm located in
Southern California.  We have been involved in fundamental research in
connectionist approaches to AI for over three years.  We have made
little progress until quite recently.  In the beginning of this year,
we decided to investigate a novel theory of intelligence, one which
maintains that learning in biological nervous systems depends entirely
on the search and discovery of temporal or causal associations between
events.  Essentially, our work stems from the hypothesis that, at the
level of abstraction which interests us, i.e., emergent intelligence
and complex signal processing, neurons are nothing more than simple
causality processors and that the brain is but a network for the
detection of causal correlations.  We think that classical
conditioning is directly linked to the ability of neurons to make
sequential associations.  We were elated to find out later that recent
discoveries in neurophysiology having to do with the temporal aspect
of synaptic plasticity (H. Markram, Science, 1/10/97), were in perfect
agreement with part of our model.
  In April, we became sufficiently convinced of the viability of our
thesis to begin work on the design and implementation of a simple and
powerful neuron for the detection of temporal order and the creation
of temporal associations.  Today, we are happy to announce that early
results from tests conducted using our chess playing hierarchical
network, have exceeded all our expectations.
  Watch this newsgroup for the next announcement from Marengo Media
regarding the coming AI revolution, that is, the temporal neuron
revolution.  The announcement will be made under the title "ANML:
Associative Network for Machine Learning."  There will be software and
source code available for free downloading.  After that, all follow-up
messages should be posted to the newsgroup "comp.ai."  Thank you for
your attention.

Sincerely,

Louis Savain

President, Marengo Media, Inc.

PS.  Please, do not send email.


[Fran�ais]

ANNONCE DE R�SULTATS DE RECHERCHE

23 Septembre, 1997

  Marengo Media, Inc. est une maison d��dition de logiciel situ�e en
Sud Californie.  Il y a plus de trois ans que nous conduisons des
recherches fondamentales dans les domaines connexionistes de l'IA.
Jusqu'� ces derniers temps, nous n'avons pas eu de succ�s.  Au d�but
de cette ann�e, nous avons d�cid� d�essayer une nouvelle th�orie de
l�intelligence.  Cette th�orie maintient que l�apprentissage dans les
syst�mes nerveux biologiques d�pend enti�rement de la recherche et
d�couverte des associations temporelles ou causales entre les
�v�nements.  L'essence de notre travail nait de l'hypoth�se que, au
niveau d'abstraction qui nous int�resse, i.e., l'intelligence
�mergente et le traitement des signaux complexes, les neurones ne sont
que de simples processeurs de causalit� et que le cerveau n'est qu'un
r�seau hi�rarchique pour la d�tection des corr�lations causales.  Nous
pensons que le conditionnement classique est directement li� � la
capacit� des neurones de faire des associations sequentielles.  Ainsi,
nous �tions ravis d'apprendre plus tard que les r�centes d�couvertes
en neurophysiologie concernant l'aspect temporel de la plasticit�
synaptique (H. Markram, Science, 10/1/97), �taient en parfait accord
avec une partie de notre mod�le.
  En avril, nous �tions devenus suffisamement convaincus de la
viabilit� de notre th�se pour entamer un projet ayant pour objectif la
mise au point d�un simple et puissant neurone con�u pour la d�tection
de l�ordre temporel et la cr�ation des associations temporelles.
Aujourd�hui, c�est avec plaisir que nous annon�ons que les premiers
r�sultats des essais ex�cut�s sur notre r�seau hi�rarchique, construit
sp�cialement pour jouer aux �checs, ont d�pass� toutes nos pr�visions.
  Surveillez ce newsgroup pour le prochain communiqu� de Marengo Media
concernant la r�volution d�IA � venir, i.e., celle du neurone
temporel.  L�annonce se fera seulement en Anglais (sorry) sous le
titre "ANML: Associative Network for Machine Learning."  Il y aura un
programme avec code d�origine disponible pour t�l�chargement gratuit.
Apr�s cela, tout message "follow-up" devra �tre post�e au newsgroup
"comp.ai."  Nous vous remercions de votre attention.

Sinc�rement,

Louis Savain

Pr�sident, Marengo Media, Inc.

PS.  Pas de messages electroniques s'il vous plait.
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From: savainl@earthlink.net (Louis Savain)
Subject: Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution
Date: 1997/09/23
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