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THE FIRST EDITION
Since its publication in 1995, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks has established itself as the definitive reference work for both artificial neural networks and for theoretical analysis of brain function. As a result of this success, the MIT Press has contracted for a second edition (HBTNN 2e) to be published in the year 2001.
For information about the first edition, see The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks.
THE SECOND EDITION
The second edition will appear both as a book, and also as an electronic website offering a number of ancillary components, such as dynamic cross-referencing, search engine, and supplemental external linking to relevant electronic resources. The electronic version will be based on the model used for MITECS, the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Although such numbers are subject to revision as the work proceeds, the current expectation is that the number of articles in Part III of the new edition will increase from 266 to at most 300, and that of these 300 articles, 175 will be revisions of articles by their original authors, 50 will be on old topics by new authors (so that about 40 topics from the first edition will be dropped in the second edition), and 75 will cover new topics missing from the first edition. Visitors to this website are welcome to suggest ways to improve upon the first edition, for example by sending arbib@pollux.usc.edu ideas on i) new topics that have emerged in the last few years, ii) topics for which a new author might be better able to review current developments, and iii) topics which should be dropped because they are redundant or passe.
We plan to reduce the emphasis on articles describing specific applications (from Astronomy to Steelmaking) in the second edition, and instead ask authors on specific aspects of artificial neural networks to include applications within the scope of the review; a Roadmap in 2e will then guide the reader to the applications distributed across Part III in this fashion. Turning to Brain Theory, a major innovation will be to add two new roadmaps, one on "Neuroinformatics" and the other on "Cognitive Neuroscience". We will thus take cognizance of the impact of new computer technologies, including databasing, visualization, and human brain imaging, on our modeling of neural function.
EDITORIAL BOARD FOR HBTNN, 2e
Shunichi Amari
John A Barnden
Andy Barto
Ron Calabrese
Joaquin Fuster
Steve Grossberg
John Hertz
Marc Jeannerod
Mitsuo Kawato
Christof Koch
Wolfgang Maass
Jay McClelland
Kenneth Miller
Terry Sejnowski
Noel Sharkey
DeLiang Wang
EDITORIAL TEAM
Michael A. Arbib, Editor arbib@pollux.usc.edu
Prudence H. Arbib, Editorial Assistant, arbib@cs.ucsd.edu
Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks
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September, 2001.