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Neural Networks

It is always nice to have a good reason to learn something interesting and new. Such an occasion arose when Walt King invited me to present a talk, "Neural Networks for the Practicing Petroleum Engineer," to the Denver Section of Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Here are Microsoft Word documents containing the text and non-SPE figures that I used in the presentation:

Download SPENN.docx

Other Resources

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On the Web:

List of "Commercial Neural Network Software": http://canopus.lpi.msk.su/neurolab/software.html
Glossary: http://www.boltz.cs.cmu.edu/glossary.html
Society of Petroleum Engineers members can access the On-Line Information Library (OIL): http//www.spe.org
(over 100 papers with keyword 'Neural')
AI Trilogy by Ward Systems Group: http://www.wardsystems.com
NeuroGenetic Optimizer by BioComp Systems: http://www.biocompsystems.com
BrainMaker by California Scientific Software: http://www.calsci.com
NeuroSolutions by NeuroDimension Inc: http://www.nd.com
BrainGel and Neuralyst available from Palisade Corporation: http://www.palisade.com
BrainSheet by BitStar International: http://www.bitstar.com

Other Software:

STATISTICA Neural Networks version 4 by StatSoft Inc.

Journals:

AI Expert (no longer published; bummer) index: http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/journals/ai_expert.html
PC AI http://www.pcai.com/pcai
e.g., "Holographic/Quantum Neural Cells" in May/June 2000 issue

Books:

For the truly serious: Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation, 2nd Edition, by Simon Haykin, 1999, Prentice-Hall, 842 p., about $100.

Please email me at with your additions to this list.

—John Schuyler, April 1999. Revised Feb. 2001. Updated the slides document to .docx format Feb 2014.