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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 * Recommendations
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11 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
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12 Feldman (Editor).
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13 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]
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14 - ISBN: 0262560925
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15 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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16 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
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17 papers are not very interesting.
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18
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19 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
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20 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
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21
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22 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
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23
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24 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
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25
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26 * TODO Should Add DSPACE links
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27 * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
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28 * Student Theses
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30 - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
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31 Real-World Knowledge
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32
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33 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
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34
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35 - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine
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36
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37 - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
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38
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39 - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
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40 Design
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41
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42 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
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43
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44 - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
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45 System for Mathematics
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46
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47 - very hard, very deep
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48 - you will need to know a lot of Math
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49
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50 - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
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51 Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
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52
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53 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
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54 - Solve problems using graphs.
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55 - So cool!
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56
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57 - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active
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58 Control of Buckling
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59 - Such a good idea
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60 - cool, short, great idea
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61 - no one's followed up on it
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62
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63 - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +
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64 Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of
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65 Chaotic Synamical sysstem
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66
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67 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked
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68 - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.
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69
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70 - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible
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71 and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.
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72
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73 - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach
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74 to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
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75 - interesting to programmers
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76
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77 - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing
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78 Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and
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79 Origami Mathematics
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80 - interesting to programmers
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81
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82 - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using
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83 Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
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84 - interesting to programmers
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85
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86 - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation
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88 - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis
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89
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90 * Things Micah should read
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91
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92 - Wolpert Principles of development
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93 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
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94 - Lawrence the making of a fly
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95 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
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96
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97 * Things rlm should read
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98 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
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99
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100 * For fun
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101 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
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102 - a reasonable philisopher
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103 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
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104
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105 * Everybody should know:
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106 - fundamental physics
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107 - classical mechanics
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108 - E & M
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109 - relativity
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110 - QM
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111 - mathemeatics
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112
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113
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114 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
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115 - readable
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116 - not too heavy
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117 - you can just go through it...
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118 - minimal dependencies
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119
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120
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121 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
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122 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
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123 outlook
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126 - Bible + friends
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127 - whether or not you believe it
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128 - read between the lines
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129 - discover what people were actually thinking
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130 - very interesting document
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131
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132 - Stranger in a strange land
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134
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135 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
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136 - /practical/ electronics book
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137 - done for 100 years
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139 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
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140 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
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141
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142 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
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143 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
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144 example.
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145 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
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146
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147 * From house interview
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148
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149 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
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150 - beautiful, best book.
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151 - obsolete, only linear
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152 - get the real story about RLC circuits
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153
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154 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
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155 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
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156 - 10/10 would teach
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157 - mathematically very clear
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158
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159 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
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160 - practical
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161
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162 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
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163 and integrated circuits"
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164
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165 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
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166 - all the wau to gaoias theory
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167 - clear
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168
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169 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
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170 - Easy reading, well written
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171
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172 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
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173 - just good
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175 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
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177 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
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178 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
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179 - great flame
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181 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
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182 - very phisolic
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183 - deep
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184 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
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186 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
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187 - can be read by H.S. student
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188 - will change your life
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189 - you will understand special relativity!
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190
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191 - faynman lectures
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192 - learn something
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193 - understandable
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195
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196 * Marvin Minsky
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197 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a
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198 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"
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199 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
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200 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment
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201 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
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202 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
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203 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
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204 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
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205 preparation!
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206
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207 - homepage :: http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's
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208 work is here, including his book, /The Emotion
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209 Machine/, and several essays and papers. Check it out!
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210
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211 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
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212 http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
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213 Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a short,
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214 self-contained essay about the various
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215
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216 - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
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217 https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html
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218 Minsky is one of a few living people who can /improvise/
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219 complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one of these
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220 improvisations here: http://aurellem.org/mmm/
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221
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222 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
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223 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
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224 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
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225 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
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226
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227 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
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228 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
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229 - Really good for "Math types."
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230 - Uses geometry for proving things.
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231 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
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232 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
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233 Nets.
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