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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@103 4 #+description: Professor Sussman's reading recommendations
rlm@97 5 #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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rlm@104 10 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
rlm@104 11 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the
rlm@104 12 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).
rlm@104 13
rlm@114 14 # NEEDS WORK
rlm@114 15
rlm@100 16 * For fun
rlm@100 17 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
rlm@100 18 - a reasonable philisopher
rlm@100 19 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
rlm@100 20
rlm@113 21 - Stranger in a strange land
rlm@100 22
rlm@113 23 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
rlm@113 24 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
rlm@113 25 example.
rlm@113 26 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
rlm@113 27
rlm@113 28 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading
rlm@100 29
rlm@100 30 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
rlm@100 31 - readable
rlm@100 32 - not too heavy
rlm@100 33 - you can just go through it...
rlm@100 34 - minimal dependencies
rlm@100 35
rlm@113 36 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
rlm@113 37 - can be read by H.S. student
rlm@113 38 - will change your life
rlm@113 39 - you will understand special relativity!
rlm@113 40
rlm@113 41 - faynman lectures
rlm@113 42 - learn something
rlm@113 43 - understandable
rlm@113 44
rlm@113 45
rlm@113 46 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@100 47
rlm@100 48 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
rlm@100 49 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
rlm@100 50 outlook
rlm@100 51
rlm@100 52
rlm@100 53 - Bible + friends
rlm@100 54 - whether or not you believe it
rlm@100 55 - read between the lines
rlm@100 56 - discover what people were actually thinking
rlm@100 57 - very interesting document
rlm@100 58
rlm@113 59 * From Sussman's Bookshelf
rlm@101 60
rlm@101 61 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
rlm@101 62 - beautiful, best book.
rlm@101 63 - obsolete, only linear
rlm@101 64 - get the real story about RLC circuits
rlm@101 65
rlm@101 66 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
rlm@101 67 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
rlm@101 68 - 10/10 would teach
rlm@101 69 - mathematically very clear
rlm@101 70
rlm@101 71 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
rlm@101 72 - practical
rlm@101 73
rlm@101 74 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
rlm@101 75 and integrated circuits"
rlm@101 76
rlm@101 77 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
rlm@101 78 - all the wau to gaoias theory
rlm@101 79 - clear
rlm@101 80
rlm@101 81 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
rlm@101 82 - Easy reading, well written
rlm@101 83
rlm@101 84 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
rlm@101 85 - just good
rlm@101 86
rlm@101 87 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
rlm@101 88
rlm@101 89 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
rlm@101 90 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
rlm@101 91 - great flame
rlm@101 92
rlm@101 93 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
rlm@101 94 - very phisolic
rlm@101 95 - deep
rlm@101 96 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
rlm@101 97
rlm@113 98 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
rlm@113 99 - /practical/ electronics book
rlm@113 100 - done for 100 years
rlm@101 101
rlm@113 102 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
rlm@113 103 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
rlm@103 104
rlm@113 105 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
rlm@113 106 Feldman (Editor).
rlm@113 107 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]
rlm@113 108 - ISBN: 0262560925
rlm@113 109 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
rlm@113 110 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
rlm@113 111 papers are not very interesting.
rlm@113 112
rlm@113 113 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
rlm@113 114 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
rlm@113 115
rlm@113 116 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
rlm@113 117
rlm@113 118 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
rlm@113 119
rlm@113 120 - Wolpert Principles of development
rlm@113 121 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
rlm@113 122 - Lawrence the making of a fly
rlm@113 123 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
rlm@113 124
rlm@113 125 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
rlm@103 126
rlm@114 127
rlm@114 128 # DONE
rlm@114 129
rlm@103 130 * Marvin Minsky
rlm@103 131 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a
rlm@103 132 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"
rlm@103 133 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
rlm@103 134 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment
rlm@103 135 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
rlm@103 136 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
rlm@103 137 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
rlm@103 138 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
rlm@103 139 preparation!
rlm@103 140
rlm@112 141 - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
rlm@111 142 including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and
rlm@111 143 papers. Check it out!
rlm@103 144
rlm@111 145 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
rlm@111 146 short, self-contained essay about the various
rlm@103 147
rlm@112 148 - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
rlm@112 149 can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
rlm@112 150 of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].
rlm@103 151
rlm@103 152 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
rlm@103 153 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
rlm@103 154 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
rlm@103 155 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
rlm@103 156
rlm@103 157 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@103 158 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
rlm@103 159 - Really good for "Math types."
rlm@103 160 - Uses geometry for proving things.
rlm@103 161 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
rlm@103 162 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
rlm@103 163 Nets.
rlm@104 164
rlm@104 165 * Representative Student Theses
rlm@104 166
rlm@104 167 These are students where I played a large role in their
rlm@104 168 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions
rlm@104 169 that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of
rlm@104 170 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,
rlm@104 171 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never
rlm@104 172 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it
rlm@104 173 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found
rlm@104 174 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can
rlm@104 175 find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]].
rlm@104 176
rlm@104 177 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising
rlm@104 178 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person
rlm@104 179 to get them working!
rlm@104 180
rlm@106 181 - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!
rlm@106 182 - Two papers:
rlm@106 183 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical
rlm@106 184 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.
rlm@106 185 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.
rlm@106 186 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.
rlm@104 187 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement.
rlm@104 188 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of
rlm@104 189 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple
rlm@104 190 experiment.
rlm@104 191 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because
rlm@104 192 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements.
rlm@104 193
rlm@106 194 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]
rlm@106 195 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994
rlm@104 196 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating
rlm@104 197 vibrational modes.
rlm@104 198 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!
rlm@104 199 - No one's followed up on it!
rlm@104 200
rlm@104 201 In historical order:
rlm@104 202
rlm@104 203 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]
rlm@104 204 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977
rlm@104 205 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later
rlm@104 206 invented.
rlm@104 207
rlm@107 208 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]]
rlm@107 209 - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981
rlm@107 210 - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can
rlm@104 211 really /do/ today.
rlm@104 212
rlm@107 213 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]]
rlm@104 214 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984
rlm@104 215 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.
rlm@104 216
rlm@107 217 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]]
rlm@107 218 - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987
rlm@104 219 - Very hard, very deep.
rlm@104 220 - You will need to know a lot of Math.
rlm@104 221
rlm@107 222 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical
rlm@107 223 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]]
rlm@104 224 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989
rlm@104 225 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
rlm@104 226 - Solve problems using graphs.
rlm@104 227 - So cool!
rlm@104 228
rlm@107 229 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating
rlm@107 230 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]]
rlm@107 231 - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999
rlm@104 232 - Interesting to programmers especially.
rlm@104 233
rlm@107 234 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using
rlm@107 235 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]]
rlm@107 236 By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001
rlm@104 237 - Also Interesting to programmers.
rlm@104 238
rlm@107 239 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic
rlm@107 240 Regulatory Networks]]
rlm@107 241 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001
rlm@107 242 - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should
rlm@107 243 be highly interesting to programmers.
rlm@104 244
rlm@104 245 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]
rlm@104 246 - By Jake Beal, 2001
rlm@104 247 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the
rlm@104 248 brain learn to talk to each other.
rlm@104 249 - Someone should expand on this work!
rlm@104 250 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to
rlm@104 251 Communicate]], 2007
rlm@104 252
rlm@108 253 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]]
rlm@108 254 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006.
rlm@104 255
rlm@108 256 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for
rlm@108 257 Computation]]
rlm@108 258 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009
rlm@108 259 - Is a completely new way to program computers.
rlm@110 260 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].
rlm@113 261