Book Reviews

Stephen Grossberg The expanded edition of Perceptrons (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1988, 292 pp, $12.50) by Marvin L. Minsky and Seymour A. Papert comes at a time of unprecedented interest in the biological and technological modeling of neural networks. The one-year-old International Neural Network Society (INNS) already has over 3500 members from 38 countries and 49 U.S. states, with members joining at the rate of more than 200 per month. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence was, in fact, a cooperating society at the INNS First Annual Meeting in Boston on 6-10 September 1988. Hardly a week goes by in which a scientific meeting or special journal issue does not feature recent neural network research. Thus, substantive technical reviews or informed general assessments of the broad sweep of neural network research are most welcome to help interested scientists find their way into this rapidly evolving technology.