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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
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rlm@97 1 #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List
rlm@97 2 #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)
rlm@97 3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
rlm@97 4 #+description: sussman's reading recommendations
rlm@97 5 #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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rlm@97 9
rlm@97 10
rlm@97 11 * Recommendations
rlm@97 12
rlm@97 13
rlm@97 14 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
rlm@97 15 Feldman (Editor).
rlm@97 16
rlm@97 17 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Thought-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp/0262560925][Amazon]]
rlm@97 18 - ISBN: 0262560925
rlm@97 19
rlm@97 20 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
rlm@97 21 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
rlm@97 22 papers are not very interesting.
rlm@97 23
rlm@97 24
rlm@98 25 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]], by Marvin Minsky.
rlm@98 26
rlm@98 27 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@98 28
rlm@98 29 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
rlm@98 30 - Really good for "Math types."
rlm@98 31 - Uses geometry for proving things.
rlm@98 32 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets
rlm@98 33
rlm@99 34 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@99 35
rlm@99 36 - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@99 37
rlm@99 38 Minsky really made me as a person...
rlm@98 39
rlm@99 40 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
rlm@99 41 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
rlm@98 42
rlm@99 43 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
rlm@97 44
rlm@99 45 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
rlm@99 46
rlm@100 47 * TODO Should Add DSPACE links
rlm@100 48 * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
rlm@99 49 * Student Theses
rlm@97 50
rlm@99 51 - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
rlm@99 52 Real-World Knowledge
rlm@99 53
rlm@99 54 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
rlm@99 55
rlm@99 56 - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine
rlm@99 57
rlm@99 58 - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
rlm@99 59
rlm@99 60 - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
rlm@99 61 Design
rlm@99 62
rlm@99 63 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
rlm@99 64
rlm@99 65 - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
rlm@99 66 System for Mathematics
rlm@99 67
rlm@99 68 - very hard, very deep
rlm@99 69 - you will need to know a lot of Math
rlm@99 70
rlm@99 71 - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
rlm@99 72 Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
rlm@99 73
rlm@99 74 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
rlm@99 75 - Solve problems using graphs.
rlm@99 76 - So cool!
rlm@99 77
rlm@100 78 - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active
rlm@100 79 Control of Buckling
rlm@100 80 - Such a good idea
rlm@100 81 - cool, short, great idea
rlm@100 82 - no one's followed up on it
rlm@100 83
rlm@100 84 - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +
rlm@100 85 Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of
rlm@100 86 Chaotic Synamical sysstem
rlm@100 87
rlm@100 88 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked
rlm@100 89 - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.
rlm@100 90
rlm@100 91 - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible
rlm@100 92 and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.
rlm@100 93
rlm@100 94 - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach
rlm@100 95 to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
rlm@100 96 - interesting to programmers
rlm@100 97
rlm@100 98 - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing
rlm@100 99 Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and
rlm@100 100 Origami Mathematics
rlm@100 101 - interesting to programmers
rlm@100 102
rlm@100 103 - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using
rlm@100 104 Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
rlm@100 105 - interesting to programmers
rlm@100 106
rlm@100 107 - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation
rlm@100 108
rlm@100 109 - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis
rlm@100 110
rlm@100 111 * Things Micah should read
rlm@100 112
rlm@100 113 - Wolpert Principles of development
rlm@100 114 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
rlm@100 115 - Lawrence the making of a fly
rlm@100 116 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
rlm@100 117
rlm@100 118 * Things rlm should read
rlm@100 119 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
rlm@100 120
rlm@100 121 * For fun
rlm@100 122 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
rlm@100 123 - a reasonable philisopher
rlm@100 124 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
rlm@100 125
rlm@100 126 * Everybody should know:
rlm@100 127 - fundamental physics
rlm@100 128 - classical mechanics
rlm@100 129 - E & M
rlm@100 130 - relativity
rlm@100 131 - QM
rlm@100 132 - mathemeatics
rlm@100 133
rlm@100 134
rlm@100 135 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
rlm@100 136 - readable
rlm@100 137 - not too heavy
rlm@100 138 - you can just go through it...
rlm@100 139 - minimal dependencies
rlm@100 140
rlm@100 141
rlm@100 142 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
rlm@100 143 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
rlm@100 144 outlook
rlm@100 145
rlm@100 146
rlm@100 147 - Bible + friends
rlm@100 148 - whether or not you believe it
rlm@100 149 - read between the lines
rlm@100 150 - discover what people were actually thinking
rlm@100 151 - very interesting document
rlm@100 152
rlm@100 153 - Stranger in a strange land
rlm@100 154
rlm@100 155
rlm@100 156 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
rlm@100 157 - /practical/ electronics book
rlm@100 158 - done for 100 years
rlm@100 159
rlm@100 160 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
rlm@100 161 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
rlm@100 162
rlm@100 163 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
rlm@100 164 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
rlm@100 165 example.
rlm@100 166 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
rlm@101 167
rlm@101 168
rlm@101 169 * From house interview
rlm@101 170
rlm@101 171 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
rlm@101 172 - beautiful, best book.
rlm@101 173 - obsolete, only linear
rlm@101 174 - get the real story about RLC circuits
rlm@101 175
rlm@101 176 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
rlm@101 177 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
rlm@101 178 - 10/10 would teach
rlm@101 179 - mathematically very clear
rlm@101 180
rlm@101 181 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
rlm@101 182 - practical
rlm@101 183
rlm@101 184 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
rlm@101 185 and integrated circuits"
rlm@101 186
rlm@101 187 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
rlm@101 188 - all the wau to gaoias theory
rlm@101 189 - clear
rlm@101 190
rlm@101 191 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
rlm@101 192 - Easy reading, well written
rlm@101 193
rlm@101 194 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
rlm@101 195 - just good
rlm@101 196
rlm@101 197 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
rlm@101 198
rlm@101 199 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
rlm@101 200 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
rlm@101 201 - great flame
rlm@101 202
rlm@101 203 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
rlm@101 204 - very phisolic
rlm@101 205 - deep
rlm@101 206 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
rlm@101 207
rlm@101 208 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
rlm@101 209 - can be read by H.S. student
rlm@101 210 - will change your life
rlm@101 211 - you will understand special relativity!
rlm@101 212
rlm@101 213 - faynman lectures
rlm@101 214 - learn something
rlm@101 215 - understandable