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Associative memory

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Teuvo Kohonen

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The contribution

This book surveyed software methods, circuit principles, and architectures for content-addressable memory. It connected the idea of searching by a cue with practical mechanisms for finding stored information. Alongside Kohonen's earlier associative-memory monograph, it broadens the history of recall beyond neural models alone.

What this does not establish

Content-addressable computer memory and learned neural associative memory overlap conceptually but are not interchangeable implementations. This book covers a range of mechanisms rather than one universal learning algorithm.

Why this date?

The linked first edition is copyrighted 1980. Its electronic publication date of 2012 describes the digital edition, not the original work.

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