D.E. Rumelhart, J.L. McClelland and the pdp research group, Parallel Distributed Processing – Explorations in the microstructure of cognition, volume 1: Foundations, The MIT Press, seventh printing, 1988, 547 pp.

The book is in good condition (small traces of usage and a name on the inside cover). It can be collected in Strombeek-Bever but it can also be mailed (if the buyer is willing to pay for the mailing costs).

Overview
What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition called connectionism that is challenging the idea of symbolic computation that has traditionally been at the center of debate in theoretical discussions about the mind.
The authors' theory assumes the mind is composed of a great number of elementary units connected in a neural network. Mental processes are interactions between these units which excite and inhibit each other in parallel rather than sequential operations. In this context, knowledge can no longer be thought of as stored in localized structures; instead, it consists of the connections between pairs of units that are distributed throughout the network.
Volume 1 lays the foundations of this exciting theory of parallel distributed processing, while Volume 2 applies it to a number of specific issues in cognitive science and neuroscience, with chapters describing models of aspects of perception, memory, language, and thought.

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Addresses of the PDP Research Group
I. The PDP Perspective
1. The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing, J.L. McClelland, D.E. Rumelhart, and G.E. Hinton
2. A General Framework for Parallel Distributed Processing, D.E. Rumelhart, G.E. Hinton, and J.L. McClelland
3. Distributed Representations, G.E. Hinton, J.L. McClelland, and D.E. Rumelhart
4. PDP Models and General Issues in Cognitive Science, D.E. Rumelhart and J.L. McClelland
II. BASIC MECHANISMS
5. Feature Discovery by Competitive Learning, D.E. Rumelhart and D. Zipser
6. Information Processing in Dynamical Systems: Foundations of Harmony Theory, P. Smolensky
7. Learning and Relearning in Boltzmann Machines, G.E Hinton and T.J. Sejnowski
8. Learning Internal Representations by Error Propagation, D.E. Rumelhart, G.E. Hinton, and R.J. Williams
III. FORMAL ANALYSES
9. An Introduction to Linear Algebra in Parallel Distributed Processing, M.I. Jordan
10. The Logic of Activation Functions, R.J. Williams
11. An Analysis of the Delta Rule and the Learning of Statistical Associations, G.O. Stone
12. Resource Requirements of Standard and Programmable Nets, J.L. McClelland
13. P3: A Parallel Network Simulating System, D. Zipser and D. Rabin
References
Index

Conditie: Gebruikt
ISBN: 0-262-68053-X
Titel: Parallel Distributed Processing volume 1
Auteur: D.E. Rumelhart, J.L. McClellan
Druk: 7
Cover: Paperback
Taal: Engels
Levering: Ophalen