I put these links and descriptions together to give people an idea of where to
go on the internet for more information about neural networks. This page is
part of my honors project about Neural Networks for COM 1722, Honors Computer
Science Seminar.
The descriptions of the sites are mine -- sometimes I was able to find
their own description, but sometimes I had to make on up myself. I've personally
checked out every site on here and entered a brief description. If I found a
site particularly good or bad, I've tried to put that in the description. If you
want a site added to this list, E-Mail me
with a URL and a brief description and I will add it. I don't plan to really
maintain this list forever, so you might want to check out some of the other
lists of sites that I've included.
Table of Contents:
- Online Papers, Publications, and Courses
- Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops
- Research, Academic, and Professional Groups
- Online Archives of Information (WWW, FTP, Gopher)
- Journals, Magazines, and Publishers
- Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
- Companies Using/Selling Neural Networks
- Software and Code
- Other Lists of Links
Online Papers, Publications, and Courses
- A Basic Introduction To Neural Networks
- This is a very brief introduction to neural networks, and what they're
used for. It has good pictures, and a decent introduction to backpropagation.
- An introduction to Neural Networks
- Course material for the class "An Introduction to Neural Networks by Ben Krose and Patrick van der Smagt of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This is an introductory book that can be freely downloaded.
- Artificial neural networks: a developing science
- An article in SPIE's Optical Engineering Reports by Albert Tebo.
Explains some of the applications of neural networks.
- Backpropagation Information
- CMU CS: 15-880: Computational Models of Neural Systems (Carnegie Mellon)
- This course is an in-depth study of information processing in real neural systems from a computer science perspective.
Course handouts and notes, exams, and syllabus.
- Engineering Applications of Neural Nets
- Online version of a presentation by Gary Whittington at the University of
Aberdeen, Scotland. Warning: This server always seems to be slow.
- Neural Edge
- The Neural Edge is the offical publication of the DTI Neural Computing Awareness Programme. Contains brief articles.
- Neural Network Definition
- Brief definition of a neural network from the STING software engineering glossary at CERN in Switzerland.
- Neural Networks Course
- Neural Nets course by Dr. Kevin Gurney of the University of Sheffield's Psychology department. Contains postscript versions of all 10 chapters of his book for the course.
- Neural Networks Course at Colorado School of Mines
- Information about the course MACS570: Neural Networks (syllabus, lecture notes, etc.)
- Neuro-Fuzzy Papers
- A list of papers having to do with neural networks and fuzzy logic.
Contains links to download the papers, journal references, and abstracts.
- Was ist ein Neuronales Netz?
- An introduction to neural networks in German.
- What is an Artificial Neural Network?
- A one page intro to neural networks by NeuroSolutions, a NN company.
- What is Cybernetics?
- A short but good introduction to the science of cybernetics by the American Society for Cybernetics.
Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops
- AAAI
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Contains information on membership, conferences, workshops, publications, symposia, and resources. This is a really large and well-organized site.
- Bakker's List of NN Conferences and Events
- A plaintext list of neural networks conferences.
- Calendar of Meetings - Neural Networks and Related Topics
- A compilation of international conference information maintained by
F. Murtagh
- CNS Home Page
- Information about the Computation and Neural Systems Conference
July 14-17, Cambridge, MA
- COLT (International Conference on Machine Learning)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ML94) and
ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT94)
- Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1996)
- 18th annual meeting of the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
University of California, San Diego, July 12-15, 1996.
- ESANN -- European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (1996)
- ESANN'96 (4th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks), Bruges, Belgium - April 24-26, 1996. Will cover most of the main theoretical, mathematical and fundamental new developments of the field.
- ICANN96
- International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 1996.
Germany - University of Bochum
July 1996
- Machine Learning 1996
- 13th International Conference on Machine Learning
Bari, Italy
July 3-6, 1996
- Multi-day Events for a Large Public: Conferences, Congresses, etc.
- A good list of events maintained by Georg Thimm, Neural Computation Group, IDIAP.
- Neural Networks Conferences Entry Form (IDIAP)
- Georg Thimm's page allows you to enter and lookup announcements for conferences, workshops, talks and other events on neural networks.
- NEURAP Conference (1996)
- NEURAP'95 (8th Int. Conference on Neural Networks and their Applications) -- Marseilles - March 20-22, 1996 France
- NIPS*96
- Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, 1996.
Monday December 2 - Saturday December 7, 1996.
Denver, Colorado.
- SAB96
- The 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
September 9th-13th, 1996
Cape Code, Massachusetts, USA
- The NSF Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering (1996)
- June 24 - July 14, 1996 -- Telluride, Colorado.
Neuromorphic engineering is a field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots.
Research, Academic, and Professional Groups
- Adaptive Computer Systems Laboratory (University of Montreal)
- Research includes: Machine learning in adaptive computer systems is an area of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, stastical inference and optimization.
- Adaptive Networks Lab at UMass/Amherst
- Directed by Prof. Andrew G. Barto, the lab focuses mainly on the learning paradigm known in artificial intelligence as reinforcement learning (RL).
- ALVINN
- ALVINN - Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network
at Carnegie Mellon University
- Artifical Neural Networks, Cognition and AI
- Artificial Neural Networks at the Dept. of Computer Methods, Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.
- Artificial Intelligence Research Group (Iowa State University)
- The research group is actively engaged in research in a number of areas including Artificial Intelligence, Neural Computation, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation , Intelligent Agents, Neural Architectures for Knowledge Representation, etc.
- Artificial Neural Nets in High-Energy Physics (CERN)
- Neural Networks in High Energy Physics; extensive page on
commercial hardware neural networks.
- Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (Italy)
- AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
- Aston University Neural Computing Research Group
- NRG at Aston University (Birmingham, England), Dept. of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics. Focuses on the theory and application of neural networks and related techniques.
- Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
- Provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, & the applications of NN solutions to technological problems
- BYU Neural Networks and Machine Learning Lab
- Brigham Young University, Dept. of Computer Science
List of publications and technical reports, graduate course descriptions, etc.
- C.S. & A.I. Lab, University of Palermo (Italy), VLSI and Neural Nets Research Group
- Research includes VLSI implementation of parallel architectures for digital signal processing, VLSI implementation of neural architectures for the handwritten character recognition task, & VLSI implementation of neural architectures for motion detection
- Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT (CBCL)
- CBCL fosters an interdisciplinary approach to learning in both biological systems and computers, where computational theories in areas of vision, motor control, neural circuitry, and language are developed.
- Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (Indiana University)
- Interdisciplinary center for research in cognitive science, directed by Douglas Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame). Research focuses on emergent computational models of creative analogical thinking and its subcognitive substrate (ie, fluid concepts)
- CMBR - University of Nevada, School of Medicine
- Center for Biomedical Modelin Research, neural networks
- CNN: Centre for Neural Networks at King's College.
- Research covers the theory of Artificial Neural Networks, applications
to speech, vision, control, medical diagnosis, time series tasks, and
hardware development of probabilistic RAM chips.
- Computation & Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology ~ Pasadena, California
- The unifying theme of this program is the relationship between the physical structure of a computational system (physical or biological hardware), the dynamics of its operation, and the computational problems that it can efficiently solve.
- Computational Neuroengineering Laboratory (University of Florida)
- The laboratory is conducting research in information processing models, both biological and artificial. The research is interdisciplinary and focuses on computers, digital signal processing, neural networks, and sensor devices for brain functions.
- Connectionism and Neural Computation Research Group Home Page
- Describes some of the Connectionism and Neural Computation work going on in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex (England).
- Cortex neural networks group
- Cortex Neural Net research group at the Dept. of Pattern Recognition and A.I. at INRIA Lorraine, France.
- Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica (University of Florence, Italy)
- Neural Networks home page - Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica. Research ranges from theoretical aspects of learning in static and recurrent networks, integration of prior knowledge & learning, and applications to spoken & written language processing.
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- Neural networks research at Eindhoven University.
- Electronic Research Group - University of Aberdeen, Scotland
- This page contains information about the Computational Intelligence research that is and has been carried out within the Electronics Research Group (ERG). This research includes Artificial Neural
Networks (ANN) and Hybrid Systems.
- Elsevier Neural Networks Journal and Books
- Online catalogue of neural network information published by Elsevier Science (journals, special issues, and books).
- Foundation for Neural Networks (SNN)
- The Foundation for Neural Networks (SNN) is a university based non-profit organization that stimulates basic and applied research on neural networks in the Netherlands.
- IDIAP Neural Network Home Page
- Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive : NN Group
Publications, members, projects & events
- IEEE Neural Networks Council
- Information about membership, publications, online newsletter, conferences, and research.
- IEEE Neural Networks Council (NNC)
- The purpose of the Council is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Neural Networks carried out hroughout the IEEE and as such is exclusively scientific, iterary and educational in character.
- Image, Speech and Intelligent Systems (ISIS) Group
- ISIS group at the University of Southampton, UK. Research areas include: control & intelligent systems, neural networks & neurofuzzy systems, speech processing & coustics and computer vision & image processing.
- Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (UPenn)
- The Institute for Research in Cognitive Science brings together researchers in the common pursuit of an understanding of the human mind, and fosters the development of new technology arising from this understanding.
- Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- A scientfic institute that pursues basic research in computer science and
artificial intelligence. Information on research, publications, software, conferences organized by the ICS, and journals published by the ICS.
- International Neural Network Society (INNS)
- The International (INNS), European (ENNS), and Japanese (JNNS) Neural Network Societies are associations of scientists, engineers, and students, seeking to learn about the modeling of behavioral and brain processes, and applications of neural modeling.
- Laboratorium (University of Genova)
- LABORATORIUM at DIST (Dept. of Computer, Systems and Telecommunications) focuses on advanced robotics, human movement studies, computer music, and multimedia (uses NNs for handwriting, speech, robot movements, etc)
- MANTRA
- The Centre for Neuro-Mimetic Systems : deals with neural network theory, hardware accelerators and applications. It is subdivided into three groups (theory, technology and applications), each of them led by a professor
acting as a scientific director.
- NASA's Neuro Engineering Team (Ames Research Center)
- Involved in long term basic research involving utilization and
development of Soft Computing technologies (Neural Network, Fuzzy
Set, and Genetic Algorithm) supporting NASA Programs.
- Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT) - Glasgow
- The Project aims at a synergy of adaptive control and neural networks. Similarities of both technologies on an abstract conceptual level constitute a basis for fundamental, engineering
orientated research.
- Neural Computation Laboratory (Arizona State)
- This research group incorporates computer modeling of auditory neural networks with long-term, simultaneous recordings from auditory neurons to provide new insights into the neural computations of hearing.
- Neural Network Group at the University of Nijmegen
- It's pronounced NYE-may-gen, I believe.
- Neural Network Transfer/Learning to Learn
- Colorado School of Mines
Machine learning and inductive transfer
- Neural Networks Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Research activities include design & implementation of neural
architectures, theoretical research on neural networks aimed at bridging the gap between theory & practice, applications of NNs to cognitive modeling, & NN simulation tools
- Neural Networks Research at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ
- Homepage of C. Lee Giles, Senior Research Scientist. Research includes dynamically-driven recurrent NNs, hybrid systems (neural nets coupled with fuzzy logic, expert systems, genetic algorithms), NNs & AI in communications and natural language processing
- Neural Systems Group
- NSG at Newcastle University in the U.K.: an interdisciplinary research centre for experimental and computational neuroscience. Main areas of activity are in cognitive, computational, systems and sensory neuroscience and neural network computing.
- NeuralWeb
- This is an experimental service for the Internet Neurocomputing Community. This page and this service are currently under construction.
- NEuroNet : An Introduction
- The Network of Excellence is proposed to attempt to better coordinate the high level of neural network activity in Europe. Many important research institutions in Europe belong to NEuroNet.
- NeuroWeb (University of California, San Diego)
- A server to provide information about the neuroscience program at UCSD.
- NNC: Neuroengineering and Neuroscience Center at Yale
- Goal: both to promote interaction between Yale's outstanding research in computational and experimental neuroscience and to use the information derived from basic research to interact with industries that require advanced neuroengineering techniques.
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- A multiprogram national laboratory for the U.S. Dept. of Energy. The missions of PNNL focus on applications of neural networks in environment, energy, health, national security, basic science & technology, and education.
- Pattern & Information Processing Group of the Defence Research Agency (England)
- The Pattern and Information Processing (PIP) group at the Defence Research Agency, Malvern researches, develops and provides specialist advice and assistance on techniques that help make
sense of data and information and thus aid or make decisions.
- Pattern Recognition Group at TU/Delft (Netherlands)
- Research includes problems basic and applied image processing, image analysis, pattern recognition, robotics, and quantitative microscopy.
- Salk Institute - Computational Neurobiology
- The long range goal of this laboratory is to understand the computational resources of brains from the biophysical to the systems levels.
- SANS (Studies of Artificial Neural Systems) at NADA-KTH
- Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science at KTH Royal Instititute of Technology (Stockholm) SANS Group - research ranges from the design and evaluation of artificial neural network algorithms to realistic modelling of biological neuronal networks
- SIGART
- Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
- SIREN (Italian Neural Networks Society)
- SIREN promotes and develops studies, researches and seminars in the field of neural networks.
- The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Carnegie Mellon)
- CNBC at CMU -- dedicated to the study of the neural basis of cognitive processes, including learning and memory, language and thought, perception, attention, and planning, and the applications to A.I., technology, and medicine.
- The Reinforcement Learning Group at Carnegie Mellon
- A list of conferences, papers, talks, and web sites having to do with reinforcement learning.
- Universite Catholique de Louvain Neural Network Research Group
- Research: applications of neural networks to data classification (project: Elena), development of hardware implementation of self-organized feature maps, hardware realization of fast, fully-parallel processors for NNs
- University of Amsterdam Robotics and Neurocomputing
- This group works on the development of theoretical understanding and computing methods for autonomous systems. Includes methods for sensor data processing, sensor based reactive control and planning techniques for navigation & exploration
- University of Texas at Austin NN Research Group
- Our research concentrates on artificial intelligence and cognitive
science, including natural language processing, schema-based vision, cortical self-organization, episodic memory, decision making, and evolving neural networks with genetic algorithms.
- University of Wales at Aberystwyth Neural Networks research
- Research in supervised learning (backprop, etc.), unsupervised learning (self-organizing feature maps).
- University of Wisconsin Machine Learning Research Group
- Vereniging Artificiele Neurale Netwerken (VANN)
- De Vereniging Artificiele Neurale Netwerken (VANN) is an independent
association, offering its members (academics and industrials) an informal forum to discuss neural networks and their applications. A Dutch SIG of the International NN Society
Online Archives of Information (WWW, FTP, Gopher)
- Carnegie-Mellon University Neural Network Benchmarks
- Cellular Neural Networks FTP archive
- This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
scientific community subscribing to the Cellular Neural Networks mailing list.
- Finnish University Network (funet) Neural Archive Site
- This is an archive for all kinds of material relating to artificial neural networks and neurophysiology; computer programs and scientific articles in electronic format. This is also where I got my cerebrum background for my introduction page.
- Machine Learning Sources
- Information services on Machine Learning, maintained by the ML Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
- Neural Network Directoy of the MRC Applied Psychology Unit
- This directory includes modelling workk carried out in collaboration with the Leiden Connectionist Group at Leiden University (The Netherlands) and at the University of Amsterdam (Department of Psychonomics and EPOS). Papers, mostly, some C source code.
- Neural Network Researchers Database
- Intends to offer a "Who's Who" for Neural Network researchers. You can search the database or add yourself.
- Neuron-Digest FTP Archive (University of Pennsylvania)
- Contains all issues of Neuron Digest.
- NeuroProse
- This is an FTP site - it's been busy every time I try to access it. It must be pretty good.
- Reinforcement Learning archive at GTE
- Last time I checked, there was nothing here. Maybe they're in transition.
- Reinforcement Learning Papers
- This directory contains papers on reinforcement learning.
- Reinforcement Learning Software
- This directory contains software (source code, binaries, and documentation) related to reinforcement learning.
- SEL-HPC Neural Networks Archive
- The London & South-East Cntre for High Performance Computing maintains a searchable archive of neural networks article references.
- The Connectionists Archive
- UCI Repository of Machine Learning Databases and Domain Theories
- University of California, Irvine. This directory contains data sets and domain theories used to evaluate learning algorithms.
- UCSD Neural Net Archive
- PostScript papers on neural networks and machine learning.
Journals, Magazines, and Publishers
- Adaptive Behavior
- Adaptive Behavior : multidisciplinary journal on adaptive behavior in animals and autonomous, artificial systems. Info on submissions, subscriptions, and abstracts.
- Collection of links to online catalogs
- Contains a list of university press catalogues and links to their sites.
- Complexity International
- A refereed journal dealing with any area of complex systems research. Topics include a-life, cellular automata, chaos, genetic programming, neural networks, and parallel computation. Information on submissions and subscriptions.
- Connection Science
- Information on special issues, etc.
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
- Contents of the latest issue of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,
information on submissions and subscriptions. My lab subscribes to this journal; I think it's pretty good.
- International Journal of Neural Systems
- A quarterly journal covering information processing in natural and artificial neural systems. Information on submissions and subscriptions, with abstracts.
- JAIR -- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (online)
- JAIR is a refereed journal, covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence, which is distributed free of charge over the internet. Each volume of the journal is also published by Morgan Kaufmann.
- Journal List at Pacific Northwest National Lab
- An online list of journal information and links.
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Investigates brain-behavior interaction and promotes lively interchange among the mind sciences. Interdisciplinary: neuroscience, neuropsychology, cog-sci, neurobiology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy.
- Journal of Intelligent Systems
- Information on the Journal of Intelligent Systems, an interdisciplinary journal in the following areas: A.I. and its applications, cognitive science, brain models, neural networks and their applications, and the social context of Intelligent Systems.
- Journals and Magazines About Neural Networks
- Neural Nets FAQ list of journal and magazine information.
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Contains information about submissions, and an online catalogue containing short descriptions, prices, and ordering information for books and journals they publish.
- Machine Learning (online)
- Kluwer Academic Publishers provides a lot of free information to machine learning researchers, but to get the full-text articles of the Machine Learning Journal, you have to subscribe.
- MIT Press
- Information about MIT Press (new releases, searchable catalogues, etc.)
- Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.
- Contact information and a database of published material organized by author, subject, title, ISBN, or Library of Congress ID.
- Network: Computation in Neural Systems
- Information about this journal (submissions and subscriptions, contents of latest issue).
- Neural Computation
- Information about the Neural Computation journal (MIT), with abstracts.
- Neural Network World
- International Journal on Neural and Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems: a bimonthly journal providing the latest developments in the field of informatics, focused on neurocomputing and the application of artificial neural networks.
- Neural Networks
- Information on the official journal of the International Neural Network
Society, European Neural Network Society & Japanese Neural Network Society.
- Neural Processing Letters
- Neural Processing Letters is a new rapid publication journal intended to disseminate the latest results in the field of neural processing. Information on subscriptions and submissions.
- Neurocomputing
- Neurocomputing publishes articles describing recent fundamental contributions
in the field of neurocomputing. Neurocomputing theory, practice and
applications are the essential topics being covered. Information on subscriptions and submissions.
Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
- bionet.neuroscience
- USENET newsgroup on neuroscience
- Cellular Neural Networks mailing list
- Mail for information or subscription.
- comp.ai.jair
- The USENET newsgroup for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
- comp.ai.neural-nets
- The USENET newsgroup for neural networks discussion.
- comp.theory.dynamic-sys
- USENET newsgroup on dynamic systems
- comp.theory.self-org-sys
- The USENET newsgroup about artificial life and cybernetics.
- Connectionist mailing list
- Send mail and ask to subscribe to the mailing list.
- sci.psychology.research
- USENET newsgroup on psychology research - never seems very active
Companies Using/Selling Neural Networks
- BioComp Systems
- BioComp Systems, founded 1992, specializes in biologically based computer systems for business and science that learn, adapt and evolve. We build systems that are based upon dynamic natural processes.
- Mikuni Berkeley R&D Corp.
- Makers of NeuroLab
- Neural Applications Corporation
- Siemens Program and Systems Engineering
- ECANSE (Environment for Computer Aided Neural Software Engineering) allows you to put a neural network together graphically, an idea I've been thinking about lately.
Software and Code
- Commercial Neural Network Software
- An archive of neural net software and descriptions at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
- Machine Learning Library in C++
- MLC++ is a library of C++ classes for supervised machine learning. The MLC++ utilities were create using the library. The library is public domain and was originally developed at Stanford University.
- The Perceptron (Omri Weisman and Ziv Pollack)
- An implementation of the perceptron model. Includes description and source code.
Other Lists of Links
- Home Pages of ML & CBR Folks
- An alphabetical list of home pages of people involved in machine learning and case-based reasoning.
- Neurality at ICE (Italy)
- Links to ICE (Italy) projects in neural networks.
- NEuroNet - NN Related Site List
- Neurosciences on the Internet
- A really awesome searchable index of neuroscience resources on the WWW and other parts of the internet, maintained by Neil A. Busis. When in doubt, look here.
- Other Scientific Resources
- PNNL Gateway To The World
- A large gateway to neural network-related WWW and FTP sites around the world, organized hierarchically by location, or alphabetical by institution.
- Yahoo - Science:Engineering:Electrical Engineering:Neural Networks
- Not a very extensive list of links.