WISARD

WISARD, short for Wilkie, Stonham and Aleksander's Recognition Device, was one of the first stand-alone neural pattern recognition systems. It was named after its co-inventors Bruce Wilkie, John Stonham and Igor Aleksander, and the original prototype was built at Brunel University. Its design grew out of Aleksander's work on the modelling capability of artificial neural networks. The Brunel prototype was commercially developed and marketed by Computer Recognition Systems of Wokingham, England, under the trade name CRS WISARD in 1984. After that, the further developments of the system do not appear to have been documented. A popular link for WISARD is the wisard pattern recognition machine at the Winton Gallery of the British Science Museum.