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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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10 * TODO something about the point of this
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12 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
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13 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the
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14 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).
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16 # NEEDS WORK
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18 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading
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20 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
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21 - readable
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22 - not too heavy
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23 - you can just go through it...
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24 - minimal dependencies
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25
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26 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
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27 - can be read by H.S. student
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28 - will change your life
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29 - you will understand special relativity!
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30
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31 - faynman lectures
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32 - learn something
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33 - understandable
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36 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
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38 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
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39 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
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40 outlook
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43 - Bible + friends
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44 - whether or not you believe it
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45 - read between the lines
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46 - discover what people were actually thinking
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47 - very interesting document
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48
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49 * From Sussman's Bookshelf
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51 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
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52 - beautiful, best book.
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53 - obsolete, only linear
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54 - get the real story about RLC circuits
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55
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56 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
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57 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
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58 - 10/10 would teach
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59 - mathematically very clear
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60
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61 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
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62 - practical
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64 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
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65 and integrated circuits"
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66
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67 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
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68 - all the wau to gaoias theory
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69 - clear
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71 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
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72 - Easy reading, well written
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74 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
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75 - just good
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77 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
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79 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
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80 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
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81 - great flame
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83 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
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84 - very phisolic
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85 - deep
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86 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
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88 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
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89 - /practical/ electronics book
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90 - done for 100 years
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92 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
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93 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
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95 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
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96 Feldman (Editor).
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97 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]
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98 - ISBN: 0262560925
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99 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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100 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
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101 papers are not very interesting.
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102
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103 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
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104 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
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106 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
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107
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108 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
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110 - Wolpert Principles of development
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111 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
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112 - Lawrence the making of a fly
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113 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
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115 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
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118 # DONE
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119
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120 * Marvin Minsky
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121 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a
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122 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"
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123 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
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124 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment
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125 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
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126 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
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127 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
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128 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
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129 preparation!
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130
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131 - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
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132 including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and
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133 papers. Check it out!
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134
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135 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
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136 short, self-contained essay about the various
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138 - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
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139 can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
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140 of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].
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141
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142 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
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143 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
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144 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
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145 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
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146
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147 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
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148 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
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149 - Really good for "Math types."
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150 - Uses geometry for proving things.
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151 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
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152 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
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153 Nets.
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154
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155 * Representative Student Theses
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156
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157 These are students where I played a large role in their
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158 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions
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159 that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of
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160 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,
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161 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never
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162 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it
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163 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found
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164 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can
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165 find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]].
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166
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167 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising
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168 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person
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169 to get them working!
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170
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171 - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!
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172 - Two papers:
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173 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical
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174 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.
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175 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.
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176 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.
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177 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement.
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178 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of
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179 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple
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180 experiment.
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181 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because
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182 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements.
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183
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184 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]
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185 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994
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186 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating
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187 vibrational modes.
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188 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!
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189 - No one's followed up on it!
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190
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191 In historical order:
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193 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]
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194 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977
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195 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later
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196 invented.
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197
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198 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]]
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199 - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981
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200 - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can
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201 really /do/ today.
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202
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203 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]]
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204 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984
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205 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.
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207 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]]
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208 - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987
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209 - Very hard, very deep.
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210 - You will need to know a lot of Math.
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211
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212 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical
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213 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]]
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214 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989
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215 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
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216 - Solve problems using graphs.
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217 - So cool!
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218
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219 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating
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220 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]]
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221 - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999
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222 - Interesting to programmers especially.
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223
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224 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using
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225 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]]
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226 By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001
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227 - Also Interesting to programmers.
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228
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229 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic
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230 Regulatory Networks]]
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231 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001
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232 - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should
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233 be highly interesting to programmers.
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234
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235 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]
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236 - By Jake Beal, 2001
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237 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the
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238 brain learn to talk to each other.
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239 - Someone should expand on this work!
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240 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to
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241 Communicate]], 2007
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243 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]]
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244 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006.
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246 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for
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247 Computation]]
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248 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009
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249 - Is a completely new way to program computers.
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250 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].
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252 * For Fun
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253 - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price
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254 - ISBN: 0195117980
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255 - A reasonable philisopher!
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256
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257 - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by
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258 Clifford M. Will
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259 - ISBN: 0465090869
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260
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261 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein
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262 - ISBN: 0441790348
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264 - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy
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265 - ISBN: 1449388396
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266 - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
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267 example.
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268 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures
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269 what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.
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