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Medical Neuroscience

Unsupervised Learning

Foundations of Neural Computation

edited by Geoffrey Hinton & Terrence J. Sejnowski

Publisher
MIT Press
Initial publish date
May 1999
Category
Neuroscience
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780262581684
    Publish Date
    May 1999
    List Price
    $66.00

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Since its founding in 1989 by Terrence Sejnowski, Neural Computation has become the leading journal in the field. Foundations of Neural Computation collects, by topic, the most significant papers that have appeared in the journal over the past nine years. This volume of Foundations of Neural Computation, on unsupervised learning algorithms, focuses on neural network learning algorithms that do not require an explicit teacher. The goal of unsupervised learning is to extract an efficient internal representation of the statistical structure implicit in the inputs. These algorithms provide insights into the development of the cerebral cortex and implicit learning in humans. They are also of interest to engineers working in areas such as computer vision and speech recognition who seek efficient representations of raw input data.

About the authors

Geoffrey Hinton is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

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Terrence J. Sejnowski holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He was a member of the advisory committee for the Obama administration's BRAIN initiative and is President of the Neural Information Processing (NIPS) Foundation. He has published twelve books, including (with Patricia Churchland) The Computational Brain (25th Anniversary Edition, MIT Press).

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