To install: gunzip nnoctave.tar.gz tar xvf nnoctave.tar To run, start octave and type "example" at the octave prompt. You should see: octave.bin:1> example Epoch 100 RMS Error 0.429681 Epoch 200 RMS Error 0.421194 Epoch 300 RMS Error 0.359428 Epoch 400 RMS Error 0.336789 Epoch 500 RMS Error 0.085948 Epoch 600 RMS Error 0.024387 Epoch 700 RMS Error 0.010610 Epoch 800 RMS Error 0.005221 Epoch 900 RMS Error 0.002709 Epoch 1000 RMS Error 0.001442 octave.bin:2> and a window should pop up showing gnuplot output as a plot of the training error and validation error versus epochs. If you press a key, you will see a plot of the network's output and the target value for each testing example. Press a key again, and you will see a mesh plot of the output the network over the entire two-dimensional input space, with low values at (0,0) and (1,1). Elapsed time for octave on Sun Sparc 20 was 65 seconds. Elapsed time for matlab on Sun Sparc 20 was 30 seconds. Please send questions and comments to Chuck Anderson associate professor Department of Computer Science anderson@cs.colostate.edu Colorado State University http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~anderson Fort Collins, CO 80523-1873 office: 970-491-7491, FAX: 970-491-2466