• Softmax Genetic Neural Network is a very good example of a nice application of neural networks. The concept as shown is in fact to combine the variation of the angle and the angle itself into a neural network. The result will be a new variation that will affect the angle also.
• Evolutionary Image Classification Using Genetic Neural Networks is another excellent example of what neural network can do in an amazing speed.

Comments: We can easily use the neural network in order to classify an object - doing that we can apply the value found to the object (computing a variation) and then we can re-inject it all back into the network for the next shot. Another application would be to forecast a trend in the stock market, knowing that everyday we can adapt and make the network learn.
 

• History and Principles of Neural Networks to 1960 offers an very good concise history of the neural network.
• History and Principles of Neural Networks From 1960 to Present is the part II.