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adding more recommendations from loose sheets.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 26 May 2014 02:19:52 -0400
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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 10
rlm@97 11 * Recommendations
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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@99 47 * Student Theses
rlm@97 48
rlm@99 49 - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
rlm@99 50 Real-World Knowledge
rlm@99 51
rlm@99 52 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
rlm@99 53
rlm@99 54 - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine
rlm@99 55
rlm@99 56 - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
rlm@99 57
rlm@99 58 - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
rlm@99 59 Design
rlm@99 60
rlm@99 61 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
rlm@99 62
rlm@99 63 - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
rlm@99 64 System for Mathematics
rlm@99 65
rlm@99 66 - very hard, very deep
rlm@99 67 - you will need to know a lot of Math
rlm@99 68
rlm@99 69 - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
rlm@99 70 Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
rlm@99 71
rlm@99 72 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
rlm@99 73 - Solve problems using graphs.
rlm@99 74 - So cool!
rlm@99 75