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This is part 7 (of 7) of a monthly posting to the Usenet newsgroup
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what it is all about.

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Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Learning
Part 3: Generalization
Part 4: Books, data, etc.
Part 5: Free software
Part 6: Commercial software
Part 7: Hardware and miscellaneous

   Neural Network hardware?
   What are some applications of NNs?
      General
      Agriculture
      Automotive
      Chemistry
      Criminology
      Face recognition
      Finance and economics
      Games, sports, gambling
      Industry
      Materials science
      Medicine
      Music
      Robotics
      Weather forecasting
      Weird
   What to do with missing/incomplete data?
   How to forecast time series (temporal sequences)?
   How to learn an inverse of a function?
   How to get invariant recognition of images under translation, rotation,
   etc.?
   How to recognize handwritten characters?
   What about pulsed or spiking NNs?
   What about Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation?
   What about Fuzzy Logic?
   Unanswered FAQs
   Other NN links?