SALSA and Reinforcement Learning
SALSA (System using Artificial Life to Study Adaptation) is an artificial life program designed to teach about adaptation. Currently only one form of adaptation, reinforcement learning, has been implemented. The links below will take you to pages giving a brief introduction to the theory of machine learning, neural networks, and reinforcement learning and instructions for how to download and use SALSA.
Learning
Introduction to reinforcement learning
Learning and neural networks