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In 1985, Rummelhart and McClelland advanced a new architecture for computing, the connectionist architecture (also called parallel distributed processing). It initiated a wide-ranging debate. During approximately the same period a considerable debate was beginning about whether computers needed to think in images in order to think. For interesting details, click on areas where the cursor arrow changes to pointed finger.