GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- Artificial Intelligence
- An interdisciplinary approach
to understanding human intelligence that has its common
thread the computer as an experimental vehicle.
- Associative Memory
- The ability to access an object by name rather than by its address.
- Axon
- The part of the nerve cell that transmits impulses from the nerve body.
- Back Propagation Error Correction
- A procedure used in teaching neural networks. Adjustments are made in
the weights in the neural nets so that the true output more
closely resembles the desired output.
- Back-Propagation Neural Network
- An artificial neural network that utilizes the back-propagation
error correction algorithm to train itself.
- Dendrite
- The part of the nerve cell that brings impulses to the nerve body.
- Genetic Algorithms
- Guided stochastic search techniques which make use of the basic principles
of natural selection to optimize a given objective function.
- Neural Network
- A computer simulation of the human brain which
consists of at least one neuron and a set of synapses. Neurons
have an activation level and a transfer function.
- Synapse
- The connection point of two neurons which is characterized
by a certain connection strength.