Marple, Lancashire-based Recognition Research Ltd has an object-oriented visual programming environment for neural networks. Netbuilder will enable developers to build information analysis systems using multiple neural network and statistical analysis modules, the company says. The neural networking technique mimics the biological neural network, enabling a system to learn by example, to recognise patterns and data and to classify data by association. Recognition has launched Netbuilder to give the neural network a more conventional look and feel, it says. Data operating in the Netbuilder environment is stored as a self-contained object module. Using an X Window interface called Netbench, an application is built by linking up multiple instances of these objects. Netbuilder also includes Netlib, a library that stores the object modules, and Netmake a software engineering tool that enables a developer to build a shell of an object module. Once the application is built it can be committed to the neural network, and automatically trains existing networks in the environment. Up on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations, single-user Netbuilder is out in September at UKP4,000.
