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1 #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List
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2 #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)
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3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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4 #+description: sussman's reading recommendations
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5 #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
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7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
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8 #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
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11 * Recommendations
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14 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
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15 Feldman (Editor).
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17 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Thought-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp/0262560925][Amazon]]
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18 - ISBN: 0262560925
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20 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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21 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
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22 papers are not very interesting.
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25 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]], by Marvin Minsky.
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27 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
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29 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
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30 - Really good for "Math types."
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31 - Uses geometry for proving things.
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32 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets
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34 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
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36 - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
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38 Minsky really made me as a person...
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40 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
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41 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
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43 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
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45 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
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46
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47 * TODO Should Add DSPACE links
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48 * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
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49 * Student Theses
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51 - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
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52 Real-World Knowledge
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53
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54 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
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55
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56 - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine
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57
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58 - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
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60 - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
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61 Design
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62
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63 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
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65 - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
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66 System for Mathematics
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67
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68 - very hard, very deep
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69 - you will need to know a lot of Math
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71 - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
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72 Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
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74 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
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75 - Solve problems using graphs.
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76 - So cool!
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78 - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active
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79 Control of Buckling
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80 - Such a good idea
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81 - cool, short, great idea
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82 - no one's followed up on it
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83
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84 - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +
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85 Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of
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86 Chaotic Synamical sysstem
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87
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88 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked
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89 - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.
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91 - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible
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92 and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.
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94 - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach
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95 to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
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96 - interesting to programmers
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98 - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing
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99 Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and
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100 Origami Mathematics
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101 - interesting to programmers
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102
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103 - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using
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104 Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
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105 - interesting to programmers
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106
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107 - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation
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108
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109 - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis
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110
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111 * Things Micah should read
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112
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113 - Wolpert Principles of development
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114 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
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115 - Lawrence the making of a fly
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116 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
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117
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118 * Things rlm should read
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119 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
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120
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121 * For fun
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122 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
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123 - a reasonable philisopher
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124 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
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125
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126 * Everybody should know:
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127 - fundamental physics
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128 - classical mechanics
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129 - E & M
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130 - relativity
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131 - QM
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132 - mathemeatics
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133
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134
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135 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
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136 - readable
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137 - not too heavy
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138 - you can just go through it...
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139 - minimal dependencies
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141
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142 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
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143 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
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144 outlook
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145
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147 - Bible + friends
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148 - whether or not you believe it
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149 - read between the lines
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150 - discover what people were actually thinking
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151 - very interesting document
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152
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153 - Stranger in a strange land
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154
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156 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
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157 - /practical/ electronics book
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158 - done for 100 years
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159
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160 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
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161 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
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162
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163 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
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164 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
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165 example.
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166 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
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