Neural networks: introduction to the 1 December 1987 issue of Applied Optics.
In recent decades, research on the structure and function of mind and brain has led to the development of a powerful new paradigm which is now being applied and adapted to a variety of problems in many disciplines. This paradigm is based on the mathematical theory of neural networks. Neural network theory includes formal architectures comprised of a large number of highly interconnected neuronlike processing elements having adjustable or adaptive interconnection strengths. Some twenty-one papers in the 1 December 1987 issue of Applied Optics bring together the work of scientists who are developing the basic theory as well as its technological uses.
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