Neural Networks : More than deep learning

The amount of research produced each year by the Computational Intelligence (CI) community is astounding. One specific branch of CI is the ever-popular branch of Neural Networks. Neural Networks hit the mainstream because of their performance and the fascination to see how deep we could make the architectures. Deep learning seems to be synonymous with "Artificial Intelligence" these days, which has driven their acceptance. I was first exposed to deep learning when I was working on my master's thesis.