Goals
• Understand
– the perceptron, the basic unit of ANN computation
(like transistor is to circuits),
– the perceptron learning rule,
– the class of functions a perceptron can represent,
– multilayer feed-forward networks,
– the back-propogation learning algorithm, and
– the momentum variant of back-propogation.
• Experience the strengths/weaknesses of multilayer
feed-forward methods through experimentation.