Announcing ...
                      APPRENTICES OF WONDER
                               by
                        William F. Allman
Imagine...computers that think...computers that learn...computers
that understand human speech and talk back.
     Now stop imagining, because they're here!  It's neural 
networking, a hot new approach to computing.  Computers that are 
so far advanced that their pattern of thought could help unlock 
the mysteries of how the human brain works.
     Want to find out more?  Read APPRENTICES OF WONDER, by 
William F. Allman--available at bookstores now.  Allman takes you 
inside the neural net revolution and into the labs of world-
renowned investigators, known as "connectionists."
     APPRENTICES OF WONDER has been hailed by Pamela McCorduck, 
co-author of THE FIFTH GENERATION: "this snappy introduction to 
the possibilities of the new science of connectionism will inform 
readers why many brain scientists are excited--and why the 
skeptics remain to be persuaded."  And Howard Gardner, author of 
THE MIND'S NEW SCIENCE: A HISTORY OF COGNITIVE REVOLUTION, says, 
"if you want to understand the latest scientific thinking about 
the relations between mind and brain, meet Allman's APPRENTICES 
OF WONDER."
     Using puzzles, problems, and brainteasers, Allman 
illustrates the power and limitations of the brain's remarkable 
cognitive abilities.  He explains with startling clarity highly 
complex technologies, the wondrous architecture of the mind, and 
the dazzling, mindbending ideas of some of its most brilliant 
apprentices.  If you've read CHAOS and THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE, 
you'll want to read APPRENTICES OF WONDER; it takes you on a 
fascinating journey to the farthest frontiers of the mind and the 
revolution now taking place in our thinking--about thinking.
     APPRENTICES OF WONDER.  A Bantam hardcover, available now 
for $18.95 ($23.95 in Canada) at a bookstore near you.
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