-A16.) Commercial software packages for NN simulation ? [preliminary] [who will write some short comment on each of the most important packages ?] The Number 1 of each volume of the journal "Neural Networks" has a list of some dozens of commercial suppliers of Neural Network things: Software, Hardware, Support, Programming, Design and Service. Here is a naked list of names of Simulators running on PC (and, partly, some other platforms, too): 1. NeuralWorks Professional 2+ (NeuralWare) 2. AIM 3. BrainMaker Professional 4. Brain Cel 5. Neural Desk 6. Neural Case 7. Neuro Windows 8. Explorenet 3000 9. NeuroShell (Systems Group) 10. DynaMind, DynaMind Developer (NeuroDynamX) Another thing: MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox (for use with Matlab 4.x) Contact: The MathWorks, Inc. Phone: 508-653-1415 24 Prime Park Way FAX: 508-653-2997 Natick, MA 01760 email: info@mathworks.com (Comment by Richard Andrew Miles Outerbridge, RAMO@UVPHYS.PHYS.UVIC.CA) Matlab is spreading like hotcakes (and the educational discounts are very impressive). The newest release of Matlab (4.0) ansrwers the question "if you could only program in one language what would it be?". The neural network toolkit is worth getting for the manual alone. Matlab is available with lots of other toolkits (signal processing, optimization, etc.) but I don't use them much - the main package is more than enough. The nice thing about the Matlab approach is that you can easily interface the neural network stuff with anything else you are doing.