and computer science departments,

以及计算机科学的研究人员所完成的
trying to figure out

这些研究试图去探索
how a computer can do the same things brains can do.

计算机究竟如何才能像大脑那样去运行
And one way people do this is

进行研究的方法之一便是
they take a hint from nature

研究者们从自然界获得启示
and they try to construct massively distributed networks

然后试图建立起广泛分布的网络
to do aspects of reasoning.

来进行不同的推理
So, there's a very simple computational network.

这是个非常简单的计算网络
That is interesting

有趣的是
because it kind of looks to some extent like the way neurons look

因为它看上去很像神经元的样子
and this is often known as neural networks.

所以通常都将它称之为神经网络
And people who study this

神经网络的研究者们