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 Webneurons Web 3 - The main goal of webneurons is to develop a better way of programming computers. Demonstration of a simple webneuron network. Also includes a minimal javascript XML parser of 37 lines.
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Newsgroup Posting. 24 Feb 2000. Posting about webneurons to ai groups.
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Subject: Webneurons. A new way of programming computers
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets, comp.ai, aus.computers.ai
Current programming languages are usually full of symbols and jargon and
it can be very difficult to follow the flow of the program and to trace
variables etc. These problems are mostly due to the historical
assumption that programming should be scripted like a book is written.
The average person can make little headway against these obstacles and
many steer clear of programming. It is partly on their behalf that a
simpler solution is suggested.
The greatest computer is the brain. Presumed to have evolved over
billions of years this demonstrates that the best programming may not be
scripted, function or object based, but rather network based. Those of
you with a little knowledge of brain anatomy must notice the striking
similarity to the World Wide Web taking each brain neuron as a web page
and brain axons as hyperlinks. The big difference is that the Web is
largely a browsable corpse with no automatic data transfer between
pages. Add this missing ingredient and the Web should come to life, and
with hundreds of new applications. The prospect is a little worrying.
The basic idea is that mini, generated web pages (webneurons) take the
place of conventional programming functions and objects, and that active
hyperlinks between these pages take the place of program flow, e.g
looping and function calls.
Imagine browsing a network of webpages, moving data between pages as you
go, and also performing a simple operation on the data held in each
page. Now imagine that this process was done automatically, then that is
how webneurons work. Web pages and hyperlinks now become active and any
page could automatically stimulate the activity of many other pages
which could stimulate others and so on. Cascades, looping, if/then,
recursion etc can all be handled.
The whole system can be edited by using browsing and with user friendly
indexes, clickboards, page titles, etc in fact all the tools of the
present day browsable Web, rather than wading through lines and lines of
undecipherable script. Instead of being a separate item, programming
itself could finally be correctly integrated with the Web.
Webneuron networks have some similarities to neural networks but without
any restrictions on node linking. For example there can be as many
layers as you like.
Webneurons can be used in modelling N dimensional applications. This is
possible because you can just keep adding links to each webneuron in the
network. So a one dimensional system can be modelled by a single line of
webneurons with a link to each nearest neighbour. A 2D system involves 4
links per webneuron and typically this could model a simple database
with each webneuron representing one field and each line representing
one record. 3D is handled by 6 links and typical applications might
include graphics. 4D has 8 links and so on.
Following my original post to comp.ai and comp.ai.neural-nets on 21 May
1996 there is now an immediately runnable demonstration program in
javascript at:-
http://webneurons.com
This has been available for some time but has only just been placed
online. It is not perfected but just gives a little idea perhaps of what
might be possible.
The original post is archived at:-
http://plexos.com/Webneurons/564.htm
where there are many other pages on the subject.
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Webneuron Network (click to enlarge)
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