January 1989 - NEURAL NETWORKS


ARTICLES

USING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION


by Todd King
Is there order in chaos? Neural nets provide a method of finding out as Todd uses the pattern associator and classification paradigms to solve pattern recognition problems.

NEURAL NETS AND NOISE FILTERING


by Casimir C. Klimasauskas
Back-propagation is one way neural nets can be used to detect relationships between what goes in and what goes out. Here, Casey discusses a technique for filtering out noise.

UNIX STREAMS


by Michael W. Garwood and Andrew E. Schweig
Unix Streams make it possible for your to develop portable, yet efficient, networking protocols. Mike and Andy discuss how Streams do what they do and how you can use them.

COMPARING MODULA-2 AND C++


by Scott Robert Ladd
When Scott compares C++ to Modula-2, he finds that neither language loses -- and that you come out the winner.

USING EXTENDED MEMORY ON THE PC AT


by Paul Thomson
It's possible to copy memory anywhere within the 16-Mbyte address range of the 80286 if you have the right data structure.

REVIEWS

EXAMINING ROOM


This month Mike Schmit compares a trio of MS-DOS assemblers -- Microsoft's MASM 5.1, Borland's TASM 1.0, and SLR's OPTASM 1.5.

COLUMNS

C PROGRAMMING


by Al Stevens
Al's project now has a bridge to Microsoft C, but that doesn't mean he's not interested in Turbo C 2.0.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING


by Kent Porter
Kent puts Modula-2 to work with three snappy utilities that go deep inside DOS.

PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS


by Michael Swaine
This month Michael peeks at paradigmic underpinnings and finds that future programming environments are more likely to focus on conserving programmer resources than on rationing the resources of the compiler.

FORUM

EDITORIAL


by Jonathan Erickson

LETTERS


by you

SWAINE'S FLAMES


by Michael Swaine

PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES

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brief product descriptions


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