Due February 11, 2005.
Read the following sections.
Items 1 and 2 are required; 3 is recommended.
John J. Hopfield, "Neural networks and physical systems with
emergent collective computational abilities,"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
79 (1982), pp. 25542558. Reprinted in
James A. Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld, ed.,
Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research, Vol. 1,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988, pages 460464.
John J. Hopfield, "Neurons with graded responses have
collective computational properties like those of two-state
neurons,"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
81 (1984), pp. 30883092. Reprinted in
James A. Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld, ed.,
Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research, Vol. 1,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988, pages 579583.
D. W. Tank and J. J. Hopfield,
"Neural computation by concentrating information in time",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
84, 1987, pp. 18961900.