I. History of Neural Nets.- Pioneers, Breakthroughs and Setbacks of Neural Nets over the Years.- II. Basic Elements of Neural Nets.- Feedforward Neural Nets - The Perceptron.- Backpropagation.- Hopfield Nets.- III. The Way Neural Nets Work.- Interactive Neural Network.- Testing and Decision Problems.- IV. Main Net Topolgies.- V. Applications of Neural Nets.- Staff Employment Planning.- Material Requirement Planning.- Credit Scoring.