Due January 28, 2005.
Read the following sections.
Items 1 and 2 are required; 3 and 4 are recommended. Each book
is on two-hour reserve at the Bailey-Howe Library.
Pages 1–124 of
John E. Dowling,
Neurons and Networks: An Introduction to
Neuroscience,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
Chapter 3 ("Neural Networks: Automata Made Up of
Parts") from
Marvin L. Minsky, Computation:
Finite and Infinite Machines, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967, pp. 32–66.
John von Neumann,
The Computer and the Brain,
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,
1957, pp 1–82.
Pages 3–38 of
David Marr, Vision:
A Computational Investigation into the Human
Representation and Processing of Visual Information,
W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1982.
