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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by bogomipz on Friday May 11, 2018 @11:01AM (#17047754)
>"Me too. I'm guessing they'll hear the word "perceptron" less than I did."

Why would that be? The Perceptron is very much a part of Neural Networks no? Wouldn't it be common now?

I understand about Prolog being a big part of AI curriculum from that time but why was the Matlab so heavy?

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by harveynick on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:43PM (#17106010)
Back then perceptrons (single neurons with engineered feature inputs) were a lot closer to cutting edge than they are now.

As for why Matlab was used a lot: because it comes "batteries included", I suspect. Probably the same reasons that Andrew Ng used it as the teaching language for his Stanford/Coursera Machine Learning course. Plus a lot of my lecturers had maths backgrounds.

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