Mactivation 3.3

Mactivation™ An Introduction to Connectionist Network Simulation. User’s Manual Screen 1. After teaching 3 hetero-associations Mactivation 3.3 1 Mactivation™ by Mike Kranzdorf Oblio, Inc. 90 East First Street P.O. Box 1379 Nederland, Colorado 80466-1379 USA Phone: (303) 258-7994 Fax: (303) 258-7996 mikek@boulder.colorado.edu {ncar | nbires}!boulder!mikek AppleLink: oblio Mactivation © 1987 - 1991 by Mike Kranzdorf. All rights reserved. LightspeedC and THINK C are Trademarks of Symantec, Inc. Macintosh and Multifinder are Trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. MS Word is a Trademark of Microsoft, Inc. Mactivation is a Trademark of Mike Kranzdorf. 2 Mactivation 3.3 Table of Contents About Mactivation and its User’s Manual…...................................................4 MS Word and TEXT:........................................................................................4 Neural Network Introduction .............................................................................5 Biological neurons and networks..........................................................5 Simulated neurons.......................................................................................8 Network architectures and interpretations.....................................9 Learning and memory..................................................................................11 Associative memory...................................................................................12 Vector and matrix notation.....................................................................14 Summary...........................................................................................................15 Mactivation.................................................................................................................17 Overview..........................................................................................................17 The Windows...................................................................................................17 Modifier Keys.....................................................................................18 The Menus.........................................................................................................19 File..........................................................................................................19 Display..................................................................................................20 The Attributes dialog box:...............................................…