🚀 go-pugleaf

Perhaps some of you know that AI and Cognitive scientists are
strongly interested in so called 'Neural Computing' or 'Parallel
Distributed Processing'. Two computer scientists / psychologists
published a three volume book about all that (James L. McClelland
& David E. Rumelhart, 'Parallel Distributed Processing', MIT press
1986). In the third volume they added a lot (>1MB) of C code to
demonstrate their approach. All the code was MS-DOS (I dunno what
that means...) and partly UN*X compatible, but blew my ST.

After some sleepless nights and the like I ported it to MWC and
found most of the code to work fine, although I didn't try it
heavily. The programs are VERY sophisticated and modifiable from
the user's interface, so I just don't know if everything works
as it should, but most things do.

If someone would like to experiment with PDP and wants the code,
let me know (you'll have to buy at least the third volume of the
book, else you won't see the light). I know that the PDP research
group who OWNS the copyright of the code would like to know of all
ports to other computers, but the book only gives a surface mail
address which I tried without success. So, if someone out there
knows some of these guys, would you please tell them that I did
it and ask if it's ok to pass the code around?

Keep you neurons going!
- Klaus.



Klaus Hahn
Marburg, West-Germany

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