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Mark D. Smucker (mds@iastate.edu) writes:

> If I remember correctly, there is also a group at Case Western Univ. (
> led by a Dr. Sterling? ) that has created a neural net that runs a six
> legged cockroach.

Well, almost remembered correctly :).  The group is actually led by Randall
Beer at Case Western Reserve University.  Some references that might be
of interest are:

Beer, R.D. (1990).  _Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior:  An
  Experiment in Computational Neuroethology_  Academic Press.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J., Quinn, R.D., Espenschied, K.S. and Larsson, P.
  (1992). A distributed neural network architecture for hexapod robot
  locomotion.  _Neural Computation_  4(3):356-365.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J. and Sterling, L.S. (1989). Heterogeneous neural
  networks for adaptive behavior in dynamic environments.  In D.S. Touretzky
  (Ed.), _Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 1_ (pp.
  577-585).  Morgan Kaufmann.

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1989).  A lesion study of a heterogeneous
  neural network for hexapod locomotion.  _Proc. Int. J. Conf.
  on Neural Networks_ [IJCNN 89], I,407-414.


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