Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the Neural Network Revolution

In the vein of The Soul of a New Machine comes this accessible book on the scientists who are creating startling theories of how the mind works as they forge a kind of artificial intelligence called neural networks--or, the first thinking machines.

"This snappy introduction to the possibilities of the new sciences of connectionism will inform readers why mahy brain scientists are excited--and why the skeptics remain to be persuaded."--Pamela McCorduck, coauthor, with Mitchell Feigenbaum, of The Fifth Generation and author of Machines Who Think and The Universal Machine