ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSOR STUDY.

Abstract : The application of a new concept of machine organization for non-numerical problems to the problem of pattern recognition and classification using associate techniques is studied. The one year contract will involve the study of using this new machine concept of associative processing for different non-numerical application areas. The first area studied which this report covers is the application to pattern recognition and processing. A quantitative evaluation of the associative techniques to these particular application areas is presented. A pattern processor is described which both extracts properties and classifies patterns by means of the preferred techniques. (Author)