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psyone
15th December 2007 - 02:21 PM
techfest.org/online/series/img2/que12.jpg

All I know is that this is a picture of some thing called "SoM"

Can anyone help me identifying what this "SoM" means and also the names of 2 scientists who are associated with this?

Trippy
15th December 2007 - 06:25 PM
QUOTE (psyone+Dec 16 2007, 03:21 AM)
techfest.org/online/series/img2/que12.jpg

All I know is that this is a picture of some thing called "SoM"

Can anyone help me identifying what this "SoM" means and also the names of 2 scientists who are associated with this?

My first guess was the School of Metaphysics but then I did a little digging, and found out about Self Organizing Map research, which seems somehow more likely.

A Self Organizing Map being a map that shows relationships in a neural network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Organizing_Map
Trippy
15th December 2007 - 06:31 PM
And as far as two names associated with it.

There's the two mentioned in Wiki (assuming the article is accurate) Teuvo Kohenen, the professor who first described it, and Alfred Ultsch.

That should be plenty to get you started on what ever you're doing.
psyone
15th December 2007 - 07:30 PM
QUOTE (Trippy+Dec 15 2007, 06:25 PM)
My first guess was the School of Metaphysics but then I did a little digging, and found out about Self Organizing Map research, which seems somehow more likely.

A Self Organizing Map being a map that shows relationships in a neural network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Organizing_Map

The image on the link in my original post doesn't look like any map at all..

I too did some digging and couldn't find any 'self-organising map' image that shows even slight resemblance to the image in the link.

The image looks like some kind of electric field..

Could SoM mean 'Self organisation mechanism'?
meBigGuy
20th December 2007 - 09:36 AM

http://techfest.org/online/series/quiz2.html

Important Dates:
Quiz 1: 24th Nov to 3rd Dec

Quiz 2: 8th Dec to 17th Dec

Quiz 3: 22nd Dec to 31st Dec



Cool prizes to be won!

roam
25th December 2007 - 12:04 AM

LOOKS LIKE A BUBBBLE!
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