Editing Neural Network Workshop

==Neural Network Workshop==

What: A hands-on workshop using Neural Networks that includes both the theory and practical implementation.

When: Tenatively January 26, 2011

Why: To raise Neural Network Awareness (NNA) and money for Noisebridge. Donations towards Noisebridge will be encouraged and appreciated.

Where: In the back classroom

Who: Anyone who wants to participate, either come and learn or help teach

=== List of Topics ===
*Math Preliminaries
**Universal Approximators: Kolmogorov's Theorem
**Linear Algebra: vectors, matricies
**Optimization Theory: error functions, gradients 
**Machine Learning: regression, classification
*Neural Networks
**Basic Architecture
**Activation Functions
**Error Functions and Output Layers
***Regression (univariate and multivariate)
***Classification (binary and multi-class, logistic and softmax)
**Training
***Backpropagation
**Implementation
***Identifying Faces with Neural Nets
***??? Other such ideas

=== Software ===
This is just a list of packages used for constructing and training neural networks: