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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: Professor 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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10 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
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11 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the
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12 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).
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13
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14 * Recommendations
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15 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
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16 Feldman (Editor).
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17 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]
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18 - ISBN: 0262560925
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19 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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20 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
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21 papers are not very interesting.
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22
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23 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
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24 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
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25
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26 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
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27
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28 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
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29
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30 * TODO Should Add DSPACE links
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31 * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
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32
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33 * Things Micah should read
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34
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35 - Wolpert Principles of development
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36 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
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37 - Lawrence the making of a fly
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38 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
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39
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40 * Things rlm should read
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41 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
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42
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43 * For fun
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44 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
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45 - a reasonable philisopher
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46 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
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47
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48 * Everybody should know:
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49 - fundamental physics
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50 - classical mechanics
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51 - E & M
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52 - relativity
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53 - QM
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54 - mathemeatics
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55
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57 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
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58 - readable
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59 - not too heavy
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60 - you can just go through it...
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61 - minimal dependencies
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62
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63
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64 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
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65 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
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66 outlook
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67
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69 - Bible + friends
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70 - whether or not you believe it
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71 - read between the lines
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72 - discover what people were actually thinking
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73 - very interesting document
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75 - Stranger in a strange land
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78 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
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79 - /practical/ electronics book
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80 - done for 100 years
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81
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82 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
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83 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
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84
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85 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
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86 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
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87 example.
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88 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
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89
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90 * From house interview
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91
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92 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
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93 - beautiful, best book.
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94 - obsolete, only linear
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95 - get the real story about RLC circuits
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96
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97 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
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98 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
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99 - 10/10 would teach
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100 - mathematically very clear
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101
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102 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
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103 - practical
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104
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105 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
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106 and integrated circuits"
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107
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108 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
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109 - all the wau to gaoias theory
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110 - clear
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111
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112 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
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113 - Easy reading, well written
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114
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115 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
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116 - just good
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117
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118 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
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120 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
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121 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
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122 - great flame
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123
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124 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
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125 - very phisolic
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126 - deep
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127 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
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128
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129 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
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130 - can be read by H.S. student
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131 - will change your life
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132 - you will understand special relativity!
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133
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134 - faynman lectures
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135 - learn something
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136 - understandable
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138
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139 * Marvin Minsky
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140 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a
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141 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"
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142 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
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143 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment
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144 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
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145 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
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146 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
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147 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
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148 preparation!
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149
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150 - homepage :: http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's
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151 work is here, including his book, /The Emotion
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152 Machine/, and several essays and papers. Check it out!
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153
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154 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
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155 http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
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156 Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a short,
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157 self-contained essay about the various
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158
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159 - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
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160 https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html
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161 Minsky is one of a few living people who can /improvise/
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162 complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one of these
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163 improvisations here: http://aurellem.org/mmm/
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164
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165 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
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166 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
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167 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
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168 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
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169
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170 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
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171 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
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172 - Really good for "Math types."
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173 - Uses geometry for proving things.
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174 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
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175 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
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176 Nets.
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177
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178 * Representative Student Theses
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179
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180 These are students where I played a large role in their
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181 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions
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182 that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of
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183 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,
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184 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never
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185 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it
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186 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found
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187 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can
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188 find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]].
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189
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190 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising
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191 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person
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192 to get them working!
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193
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194 - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!
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195 - Two papers:
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196 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical
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197 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.
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198 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.
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199 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.
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200 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement.
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201 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of
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202 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple
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203 experiment.
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204 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because
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205 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements.
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206
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207 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]
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208 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994
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209 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating
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210 vibrational modes.
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211 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!
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212 - No one's followed up on it!
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213
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214 In historical order:
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216 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]
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217 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977
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218 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later
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219 invented.
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220
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221 - The Connection Machine
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222 - By Danny Hillis, 1981
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223 - Beautiful thesis, but it doesn't tell you anything you can
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224 really /do/ today.
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225
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226 - A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design
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227 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984
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228 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.
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229
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230 - ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics
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231 - By David A. McAllester, 1987
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232 - Very hard, very deep.
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233 - You will need to know a lot of Math.
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234
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235 - KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical
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236 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
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237 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989
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238 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
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239 - Solve problems using graphs.
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240 - So cool!
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241
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242 - Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating
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243 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
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244 - By Daniel Coore, 1999
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245 - Interesting to programmers especially.
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246
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247 - Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using
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248 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics
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249 By Radhika Nagpal, 2001
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250 - Also Interesting to programmers.
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251
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252 - Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic
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253 Regulatory Networks
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254 - By Ron Weiss, 2001
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255 - Third in a line of bio-papers which should be highly interesting
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256 to programmers.
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257
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258 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]
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259 - By Jake Beal, 2001
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260 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the
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261 brain learn to talk to each other.
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262 - Someone should expand on this work!
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263 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to
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264 Communicate]], 2007
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266 - Games, Puzzles, and Computation
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267 - By Robert Aubrey Hearn, 2006.
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269 - Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for
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270 Computation.
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271 - By Alexey Andreyevich Radul, 2009
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