Preface
Natural NN's
NN History
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Artificial NN's
Types of NN's
Programming NN's

The neural network science began in 1943, when Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts published their well known and ground-breaking treatise "A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity" and at the same time started a completely new era within computer research and artificial intelligence.

McCulloch og Pitts' thesis showed that it was possible to construct a neural network using only mathematics and algorithms. Their version of the neural network was that by interconnecting a set of BDN's, you could make a network capable of solving any computable task.

Mcculloch and Pitts' network didn't differ much from how the brain really works. Was it possible, by the help of a neural network, to make a model over the thoughts of a human being? Mcculloch and Pitt's treatise was read with great interest when it was published, and is still read by the scientists today.