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Overview emergent is a comprehensive neural network simulator that enables the creation and analysis of complex, sophisticated models of the brain in the world; features: Full browser and 3D GUI for constructing, visualizing, & interacting. Accessible to non-programmers e.g., for teaching. But also highly productive for experts, used daily in scientific research. Powerful C++ scripting language, css (not that css), GUI Programming environment (IDE) -- transparent access to C++. Rich, dynamic, embodied environments for training networks: DataTable for network inputs and data processing, analysis, generation (filtering, grouping, sorting, dimensionality reduction, graphing, etc). Newtonian physics simulator for robotics simulations, e.g., a biophysically realistic human arm, and realistic embodied, dynamic vision. Sensory filtering for vision and audition, and vocal-tract speech. Many classic neural network algorithms and variants: Backpropagation (e.g., deep convolutional neural networks), Constraint Satisfaction, Self Organizing, and the Leabra algorithm which incorporates many of the most important features from each of these algorithms, in a biologically consistent manner. Also, symbolic / subsymbolic ACT-R. Highly optimized vector-based back-end code with thread-specific memory allocation, and GPU (CUDA); Convenient compute cluster for GUI-based job control and data management. In use for decades, for hundreds of scientific publications from a variety of different labs. Detailed models of the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, visual cortex, cerebellum, etc available (also see textbook). Direct descendant of PDP (1986) and PDP++ (1995). News and updates now: Current SVN Status Feb 7, 2018: 8.5.2, See 8.5.0 ChangeLog. Jan 17, 2018: 8.5.1, See 8.5.0 ChangeLog. Jan 7, 2018: 8.5.0, See 8.5.0 ChangeLog. Sept 7, 2017: 8.2.0, See 8.2.0 ChangeLog. Jun 2, 2017: 8.1.0, See 8.1.0 ChangeLog. Jan 12, 2017: 8.0.4, See 8.0.4 ChangeLog. Nov 9, 2016: 8.0.3-beta, See 8.0.3 ChangeLog. Sept 15, 2016: 8.0.1, See 8.0.0 ChangeLog. Aug 30, 2016: 8.0.0, See 8.0.0 ChangeLog. Aug 25, 2014: 7.0.1, See 7.0.1 ChangeLog. June 23, 2014: 7.0.0, See 7.0.0 ChangeLog. Aug 28, 2013: 6.3.2, See 6.3.2 ChangeLog. April 7, 2013: 6.2.0, See 6.2.0 ChangeLog. Dec 20, 2012: 6.1.1, See 6.1.0 ChangeLog. Nov 9, 2012: 6.1.0, See 6.1.0 ChangeLog. Oct 8, 2012: 6.0.3, See 6.0.0 ChangeLog. Sept 26, 2012: 6.0.2, See 6.1.0 ChangeLog. Aug 31, 2012: 6.0.1, See 6.0.0 ChangeLog. June 5, 2012: 5.3.10 beta, See 6.0.0 ChangeLog. May 4, 2012: 5.3.9 beta, See 5.4.0 ChangeLog. May 3, 2012: 5.3.8 beta, See 5.4.0 ChangeLog. April 25, 2012: 5.3.7 beta, See 5.4.0 ChangeLog. April 12, 2012: 5.3.6 beta, See 5.4.0 ChangeLog. March 13, 2012: 5.3.2 beta, See 5.4.0 ChangeLog. Feb 15, 2012: 5.3.1 beta, See 5.4.0 ChangeLog. Dec 23, 2011: 5.3.0, See 5.3.0 ChangeLog. Oct 31, 2011: 5.2.6 beta, See 5.3.0 ChangeLog. Oct 1, 2011: 5.2.3 beta, See 5.3.0 ChangeLog. Sept 20, 2011: 5.2.2 beta, See 5.3.0 ChangeLog. Sept 1, 2011: 5.2.0, See 5.2.0 ChangeLog. May 24, 2011: 5.1.7 beta, See 5.2.0 ChangeLog. April 11, 2011: 5.1.6 beta, See 5.2.0 ChangeLog. May 21, 2011: 5.1.5 beta, See 5.2.0 ChangeLog. March 9, 2011: 5.1.4 beta, See 5.2.0 ChangeLog. Feb 23, 2011: 5.1.2 beta, See 5.2.0 ChangeLog. Aug 16, 2010: 5.1.0, See 5.1.0 ChangeLog. April 21, 2010: 5.0.2, See 5.0.2 ChangeLog. Dec 5, 2009: 5.0.1, See 5.0.1 ChangeLog. Sept 9, 2009: All textbook projects have been updated to emergent 5.0.0 and are available on the CompCogNeuro wiki. Aug 25, 2009: 5.0.0, See 5.0.0 ChangeLog.

Documentation and useful links Documentation, About emergent, Screenshots emergent-users mailing list, Submit a bug Keyboard shortcuts, Color coding, Matrix css Development, ViewVC, CodeReview, OpenGrok Comparison of Neural Network Simulators Download & Install emergent 8.5.2 Windows Instructions 64bit Windows 10 required: First install MSVC++ 2015 (runtime C++ libraries, select vcredist_x64.exe -- only if you haven't done this already) and then install emergent-8.5.2-11409-win64.exe or for Windows versions < 10: emergent-8.5.2-11409-win64-qt53.exe optional long-term-support (LTS) emergent7 compatibility package for old sims: emergent-7.1.0-11409-win64.exe (depends on 8.5.2 install - now a regular installer exe -- just run it and accept default location to install) Mac Instructions 10.10+: Install emergent_install_mac_deps-8.5.1.dmg (note: this release uses new 8.5.1 dependencies -- you must update!) and then: emergent-8.5.2-11409-mac64.dmg. After downloading, right click and select open. optional long-term-support (LTS) emergent7 compatibility package for old sims: emergent-7.1.0-11409-mac64.dmg (depends on 8.5.2 install) Ubuntu Instructions Our apt repository contains packages for emergent 8.5.2 for the LTS 16.04 and 14.04 releases (also works on intel chromebooks under crouton). There are older versions of emergent for earlier versions. See Build Linux for help building the latest version from scratch. HTTP download or FTP download You can find older binary packages for emergent and source packages for all of its prerequisites on the HTTP download or FTP download sites (same source, just different TP). Building emergent from source 8.5.2 Build emergent Get the emergent source code using Subversion: svn checkout https://grey.colorado.edu/svn/emergent/emergent/trunk ~/emergent