*** Please note that the location of the files was changed at the beginning of
** the year, so that any copies you have of the previous instructions should be
* discarded. The new location and instructions are given at the end of the list.
[Note this list has been edited to contain only those reports related to
computational neuroscience.]
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NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-96-045:
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Networks of Spiking Neurons: The Third Generation of Neural Network Models
by Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
Abstract:
The computational power of formal models for networks of spiking
neurons is compared with that of other neural network models based on
McCulloch Pitts neurons (i.e. threshold gates) respectively sigmoidal
gates. In particular it is shown that networks of spiking neurons are
computationally more powerful than these other neural network models. A
concrete biologically relevant function is exhibited which can be
computed by a single spiking neuron (for biologically reasonable values
of its parameters), but which requires hundreds of hidden units on a
sigmoidal neural net.
This article does not assume prior knowledge about spiking neurons, and
it contains an extensive list of references to the currently available
literature on computations in networks of spiking neurons and relevant
results from neurobiology.
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***************** ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS ******************
The Report NC-TR-96-001 can be accessed and printed as follows
% ftp ftp.dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (134.219.96.1)
Name: anonymous
password: your full email address
ftp> cd pub/neurocolt/tech_reports
ftp> binary
ftp> get nc-tr-96-001.ps.Z
ftp> bye
% zcat nc-tr-96-001.ps.Z | lpr -l
Similarly for the other technical reports.
Uncompressed versions of the postscript files have also been
left for anyone not having an uncompress facility.
In some cases there are two files available, for example,
nc-tr-96-002-title.ps.Z
nc-tr-96-002-body.ps.Z
The first contains the title page while the second contains the body
of the report. The single command,
ftp> mget nc-tr-96-002*
will prompt you for the files you require.
A full list of the currently available Technical Reports in the
Series is held in a file `abstracts' in the same directory.
The files may also be accessed via WWW starting from the NeuroCOLT
homepage (note that this is undergoing some corrections and may be
temporarily inaccessible):
http://www.dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk/neural/neurocolt.html
Best wishes
John Shawe-Taylor