A MULTITHREADED SOFTWARE MODEL FOR BACKPROPAGATION

NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS

by

KIYOSHI KAWAGUCHI, BSEE

THESIS

Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of

The University of Texas at El Paso

in Partial Fullfillment

of the Requirements

for the Degree of

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

July, 2000