Readings listed in this section are from the required textbook:
Rojas, R. (1996) Neural networks: a systematic introduction. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996) [ISBN 3540605053; 978354060508].
| LEC# | Topic | Readings |
| 1 | Motivation for artificial neural networks | Rojas 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 Farabee, M. (2009) The nervous system. Available online at: www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookNERV.html (Last accessed June 2009.) Clabaugh, C., D. Myszewski and J. Pang (2009) Neural networks. Available online at: http://cse.stanford.edu/class/sophomore-college/projects-00/neural-networks/Files/presentation.html (Last accessed June 2009.) Carnegie Mellon (2009) Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Available online at: www.cnbc.cmu.edu (Last accessed June 2009.) |
| 2 | The artificial neuron: Perceptrons | Rojas, Chapter 3 |
| 3 | Multi-layered feed-forward networks | Rojas, Chapter 6 |
| 4 | ANN as search | Rojas, Chapter 4 |
| 5 | Training networks | Rojas, Chapter 7 |
| 6 | Kohonen-Grossberg counterpropagation networks | Rojas, Section 5.1 and Chapter 16. Kohonen, T. (2009a) Kohonen network. Available online at www.scholarpedia.org/article/Kohonen_network (Last accessed June 2009.) |
| 7 | Boltzmann machines | Rojas, Chapter 14 Hinton, G.E. (2007) Boltzmann machine. Available online at www.scholarpedia.org/article/Boltzmann_machine (Last accessed June 2009.) |
| 8 | Hopfield nets | Rojas, Chapters 12 and 13 Chapter 42 of MacKay, D.J.C. Information theory, inference, and learning algorithms. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) [ISBN-13: 9780521642989; ISBN-10: 0521642981]. Available online at www. inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html (Last accessed June 2009.); Hopfield, J.J. (2009a) Hopfield network. Available online at www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hopfield_network (Last accessed June 2009.) |
| 9 | Problems in ANN learning | Rojas, Chapter 8. |
| 10 | Applications of neural networks | Sejnowski, T.J. and C.R. Rosenberg (1987) Parallel networks that learn to pronounce English text. Complex Systems 1, pp.145–168. Available online at www.cnl.salk.edu/ParallelNetsPronounce/index.php (Last accessed June 2009.) |