Neuron Digest is resuming publication temporarily, after a hiatus of six months. However, Peter Marvit is calling for a new volunteer moderator. Marvit has processed the neural-network news since 1988, following two years by Michael Gately. The digest now goes to 3K addresses, including comp.ai.neural-nets; one estimate puts readership near 50K. Back issues are in pub/Neuron-Digest on psych.upenn.edu, or available via . , 215/573-3991, 215/898-7301 Fax. [ND, 14Jan97.] (To paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, Neuron Digest can be a bully pulpit for any Computist who wants the job.)

Commercial products that use neural networks have been listed on , by Paul Keller . [C. Lee Giles , comp.ai, 14Oct96.] Another such page is . [Jaime J. Fernandez Jr. , comp.ai, 15Oct96.]

Formulab Neuronetics Corp. (Australia) has announced a new Windows-compatible system for computer vision and pattern recognition, as a PC circuit card or a stand-alone $6K hexagon- shaped computer. [Tampa Tribune, 03Dec96, B&F4. EDUPAGE.] (Will Dwinnell <76743.1740@compuserve.com> says it appears to be a hardware accelerator for adaptive logic networks (ALNs). Formulab likes to talk about cheap supercomputers and emulation of human cognition. [comp.ai, 15Dec96. David Joslin.])

The top neural network backgammon programs -- derived from TD-Gammon, Jellyfish, and loner -- are described on . These games play somewhere around 3,500 humans on the FIBS network, and are among the top 20 players. [Mel Leifer , comp.ai.games, 28Oct96.]

You can find source code for a chess program in Mark Watson's "Common Lisp Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory" (Springer Verlag, ISBN 0-387-97614-0 or 3-540-97614-0). [Kirt Undercoffer comp.ai, , 29Oct96.]

References and white papers on knowledge-based systems (KBS), NN, GA, clustering, etc., can be found on the NeoVista Data Mining page, . [Vahe , comp.databases.olap, 06Dec96.]

Grandon Gill once did a study of about 80 expert systems built in the mid-1980s, and has posted it to . The research data section will let you upload a database of system info. [, comp.ai, 06Dec96.]

Computist Maurice Clerc has translated Earl Cox's "Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry" into French, as "La logique floue pour les affaires et l'industrie" (International Thomson Publishing). . [, 25Jan97.]

There's an online service that translates web pages into other languages. Leonard Grossman tried it, and posted the results to . Addresses are a problem: "West Suburban Temple Har Zion in River Forest, Illinois" came out as "temple suburbain occidental Har Zion dans la foret de fleuve, l'Illinois." [, c.i.www.announce, 24Dec96.]

-- Ken