Emergence of a New Technology

Excerpt from The Emergence of a New Technology: The Case of Neural Networks Michael Rappa is assistant professor of management, in the Management of Technology Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Koenraad Debackere is a visiting fellow at Sloan and a doctoral candidate in management at Ghent University in Belgium. The authors are particularly grateful to Susan Bjřrner of the MIT Library for her expert assistance in electronic database searching, and to professor Thomas for his advice and encouragement. This research was sponsored, in part, by the Swedish Board of Technical Development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.