This document discusses back propagation networks and soft computing. It provides an overview of back propagation networks, including what they are, their basic structure with an input, hidden and output layer, and how they learn through examples using backpropagation. It also discusses topics that will be covered in lectures on back propagation networks, including background information, the backpropagation learning algorithm, and a numerical example. The document provides details on computation in the input, hidden and output layers of a multi-layer feedforward backpropagation network.