Lecture 1

Overview, history, philosophy, benchmark database studies

Course goals, topics, methods, assignments
Historical review of principal neural network modules for learning, pattern recognition, and associative memory
Class project: Comparative studies of supervised learning systems
Benchmark database studies

Overview, history, philosophy

• Daugman, John G. (1990) Brain metaphor and brain theory. In Eric Schwartz (Ed.) Computational Neuroscience. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Chapter 2: pp. 9–18.
• Borges, Jorge Luis (1942) Funes, the Memorious. In: Ficciones (translation), New York: Grove Press (1962), pp. 107–115 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borges
• Henig, Robin Marantz (2004) The quest to forget. The New York Times Magazine, April 4, 2004, pp. 32-37.
• Treffert, Darold A., and Christensen, Daniel D. (2005) Inside the mind of a savant. Scientific American, Dec., pp. 108-113.
• Carpenter, Gail A. (1989) Neural network models for pattern recognition and associative memory. Neural Networks, 2, 243–257.
• McCulloch, Warren S., & Pitts, Walter (1943) A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 5, 115-133.
• Bower, Gordon H. (2000) A brief history of memory research. In Endel Tulving and Fergus I.M. Craik, (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 3-32.
• Smith, Edward E., and Medin, Douglas L. (1981) Categories and concepts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1-2, pp. 1-21.
• Grossberg, Stephen (1982) Studies of Mind and Brain. Boston: Reidel / Kluwer Publ. – Preface, Introduction, and prefaces of chapters 1–13.

Memory extremes: Audio & video

• Unique memory lets woman replay life like a movie
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5352811
  Morning Edition, April 20, 2006 · Neurobiologist James McGaugh, one of the world's experts on human memory, says that a woman he calls AJ has a one-of-a-kind memory. In an interview with NPR, she talks about what life is like for someone who can remember things she’s done and news events from almost every day of her life for the past 25 years. Her life is like a split-screen movie, with the past running almost as vividly as the present.
  
• Clive Wearing: Living without memory
  YouTube (BBC – The Mind): Pt2a Pt2b Pt2c Pt2d
  Clive Wearing on Wikipedia
  Wikipedia: Clive Alex Wearing (born 1938) is a British musicologist, conductor, and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long lasting case of anterograde amnesia. Specifically, this means he lacks the ability to form new memories, dubbed the "memento" syndrome by laypeople and the media, after a film based on the subject of the same name.

Class project databases

CN710 wikis – including financial database reports and results

• Fall 2007 http://cns.bu.edu/cn710/Fall2007
• Fall 2006 http://cns.bu.edu/cn710/Fall2006/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage
• Spring 2006 http://cns.bu.edu/cn710/Spring2006/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage

Financial prediction

• Versace, Massimiliano, Bhatt, Rushi, Hinds, Oliver, & Shiffer, Mark (2004) Predicting the exchange traded fund DIA with a combination of genetic algorithms and neural networks. Expert Systems with Applications, 27(3), 417-425. [This paper, by four CNS students, began with the CN550 class project.]

UCI Repository

• Hettich, S., & Bay, S.D. (1999) The UCI KDD Archive. Irvine, CA: University of California, Department of Information and Computer Science. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html

Response plots

• Lang, K.J., and Witbrock, M.J. (1989) Learning to tell two spirals apart. In David S. Touretzky, Geoffrey Hinton, and Terrence Sejnowski (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School. San Mateo, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann Publ. pp. 52-59.

Writing

• Strunk, William, Jr., & White E.B. (1959-2000) The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
• APA style: http://www.apastyle.org/, http://www.bridgewater.edu/WritingCenter/manual/APAformat.htm