
Contents of this compressed file assemblage:

  README      -- this file
  FACESIM.TXT -- Un*x mail messages received from Alice O'Toole

The FACESIM.TXT file includes source code in C and FORTRAN from 
Alice O'Toole's face recognition Artificial Neural Network package.  
Alice used this code to model the "Other Race Effect" -- where individuals 
of another race seem to be more "alike" than members of one's own race. 
Also, Alice has done some preliminary modelling of gender separation using 
the code.

The original network uses the C routines on a Sun workstation (your standard 
Un*x box) and the FORTRAN routines on a Convex computer (to do the eigenvector
extraction).  Alice indicates that eigenvector extraction is not necessary 
to demonstrate interesting behavior, so the FORTRAN code may be ignored if
necessary.  The FORTRAN calls routines from EISPACK, so if ported, either 
EISPACK must be available, or the code will have to be hacked for a replacement
(different library (Matlab, LINPACK?) or custom routines).

Alice presented this material at a meeting of the Metroplex Institute for 
Neural Dynamics in early 1991.

