From Biological to Artificial Neural Networks

There are two basic reasons why we are interested in
computational replications of natural neural networks:
From a technical viewpoint, some problems such as
character recognition require massively parallel and
adaptive processing. From a biological viewpoint, 
artificial neural networks can be used to replicate 
and simulate components of the human (or animal) brain, 
thereby giving us insight into natural information 
processing. In the present talk, I explain the very
basic ideas behind artificial neural networks as well
as their mathematical desciption and evaluation of
their basic capabilities.