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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: sussman's reading recommendations
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5 #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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11 * Recommendations
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14 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
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15 Feldman (Editor).
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17 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Thought-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp/0262560925][Amazon]]
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18 - ISBN: 0262560925
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20 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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21 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
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22 papers are not very interesting.
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25 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]], by Marvin Minsky.
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27 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
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29 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
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30 - Really good for "Math types."
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31 - Uses geometry for proving things.
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32 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets
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34 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
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36 - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
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38 Minsky really made me as a person...
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40 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
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41 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
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43 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
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45 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
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47 * Student Theses
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49 - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
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50 Real-World Knowledge
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51
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52 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
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54 - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine
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56 - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
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58 - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
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59 Design
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61 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
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63 - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
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64 System for Mathematics
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66 - very hard, very deep
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67 - you will need to know a lot of Math
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69 - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
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70 Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
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72 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
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73 - Solve problems using graphs.
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74 - So cool!
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