The Encog Artificial Intelligence Framework (http://www.encog.org) is a Java and DotNet framework for constructing neural networks, bots, genetic algorithms, and other artificial intelligence solutions. Encog is an open source project licensed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL).
This presentation will focus on using Encog to implement a neural network. Neural networks are used to analyze numeric data. They are particularly adept at recognizing patterns. This allows neural networks to be applied to a wide array of problems, such as data mining, financial forecasting, optical character recognition and game strategy.
This presentation will begin by showing exactly what a neural network is, and how it can be used. The Java code used to implement a neural network to recognize simple mathematical functions will be used as a starting point. From this starting point, the simple neural network will be expanded to recognize characters and implement a simple OCR application.
Speaker: Jeff Heaton
Sponsor: NetEffects
Meeting Slides: via HeatonResearch.com
