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 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
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-* From Sussman's Bookshelf:
+* Some /Real/ High school Reading
-- [[http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Network-Theory-Amar-Bose/dp/B0000CMXS1][Introductory Network Theory]], by A.G. Bose and K.N. Stevens
+- [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/cosmology-relativity-and-gravitation/first-course-general-relativity][A First Course in General Relativity]], by Bernard F Schultz
-- ASIN: B0000CMXS1
+- ISBN: 9780521277037
-- Get the real story about RLC circuits!
+- Readable, not too heavy.
-- Obsolete -- it only covers linear circuits.
+- Minimal dependencies
+- You can just go through it slowly and understand at each step.
-- [[http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Nonlinear-Circuits-Leon-Chua/dp/0070108986][Linear and Nonlinear Circuits]], by Chua, Desoler, and Kuh
-- ISBN: 0070108986
+- [[http://www.amazon.com/Space-Special-Relativity-David-Mermin/dp/0881334200][Space and Time in Special Relativity]], by [[http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/][David Mermin]]
-- More up-to-date than /Network Theory/
+- ISBN: 0881334200
-- 10/10 would teach
+- HIGHLY accessible.
-- Mathematically very clear
+- This will change your life.
+- You will understand special relativity!
-- [[http://frank.harvard.edu/aoe/][The Art of Electronics]], by Horowitz & Hill
-- ASIN: B001ERDQVI
+- [[http://www.feynmanlectures.info/][The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]
-- Practical
+- Highly understandable
-- Beautiful
+- Just go there and learn something already!
-- [[http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Design-Analog-Integrated-Circuits/dp/0471574953/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401819423&sr=1-1&keywords=Analysis+and+Design+of+Analog+Integrated+Circuits+3rd+edition][Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits]], by Grey and
+- [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]]
-Meyer
+- A trove of wonderful ideas!
-- ISBN: 0471574953
-- Get the 2nd or 3rd edition, not later ones.
+- [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democritus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]]
+- Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with
-- [[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-survey-of-modern-algebra][A Survey of Modern Algebra]], by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders
+a philosophical outlook.
-MacLane
-- ISBN: 9781568814544
+- Bible, Talmud, Koran
-- Goes all the way to Galois Theory!
+- Read them whether or not you believe them!
-- Clear!
+- Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what
+people were actually thinking back then.
-- [[http://usf.usfca.edu/vca//][Visual Complex Analysis]], Needham
+- Very interesting documents!
-- ISBN: 0198534469
+- [[http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm][Bava Metzia 59b]] is an interesting story!
-- Easy reading, well written
-- Wonderful use of graphics!
-- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/solid-shape][Solid Shape]], Jan Koenderink
-- ISBN: 026211139X
-- Just good!
-- [[http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/theoretical-physics-and-mathematical-physics/probability-theory-logic-science][Probability: the Logic of Science]], by E.T. Jaynes
-- ISBN: 9780521592710
-- OMG just read this already!
-- Here's [[http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html][some]] [[http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html][links]] to the book.
-- This book will change your life, and make probability make
-sense. Truly excellent book.
-- Why aren't you reading this!?
-- [[http://www.perseusacademic.com/book.php?isbn=0805390219][Calculus on Manifolds]], Spivak
-- ISBN: 9780805390216
-- Great Mathematical notation!
-- Was an inspiration for [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM]].
-- Book contains a great flame!
-- [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258635.The_Variational_Principles_of_Mechanics][The Variational Principles of Mechanics]], by Cornelius Lanczos
-- ISBN: 0486650677
-- Very philosophic; deep.
-- You could read it 100 times and learn something new each time!
-- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][Computers and Thought]], by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
-Feldman (Editor).
-- ISBN: 0262560925
-This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
-AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
-papers are not very interesting.
-- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms]],
-by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
-- ISBN: 9780262013895
-- I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
-- [[http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199549078.do][Principles of Development]], by Wolpert
-- ISBN: 0199554285
-- [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1547380.A_Genetic_Switch][A Genetic Switch]], by Mark Ptashne
-- ISBN: 0865423156
-- Such clarity!
-- [[http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/mark-ptashne/genetic-switch-lecture-series][Lecture Series Based on the book!]]
-- [[http://making-of-a-fly.me/][The Making of a Fly]], by Peter A. Lawrence
-- ISBN: 0632030488
-- Probably out of date already, but very well written!
-- [[http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Formation-Ciliate-Studies-Models/dp/0195048903][Pattern Formation: Ciliate Studies and Models]], by Joseph Frankel
-- ISBN: 0195048903
-- My type of book!
-- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/harmonic-mind][The Harmonic Mind]], Volumes 1 and 2, by Smolenck and Legendre
-- ISBN: 9780262516198
-- I'm very interested in the amazing latency of the human
-brain. This book presents a way by which multiple stages of
-computation can be folded together into a single computation,
-and is an interesting hypothesis about how the mind might work!
-- [[http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2013-Hardcover-Edition][The Radio Amateur's Handbook]], [[http://www.arrl.org/][ARRL]]
-- /practical/ electronics book
-- They've been making this book for about 100 years!
-- [[http://www.amazon.com/Radiotron-Langford-Smith-Reproduced-Distributed-Corporation/dp/B000JILVH4][Radiotron Designer's Handbook, 4th edition, RCA]]
-- ASIN: B000JILVH4
-- I'm very interested in hi-fi.
-* Marvin Minsky
-Minsky really made me as a person. He was my adviser when I was a
-student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetism"
-to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
-right amount of negligence and delegation to create an environment
-where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
-seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
-knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
-Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
-preparation!
-- http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
-including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and
-papers. Check it out!
-- [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
-short, self-contained essay about the various
-- [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
-can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
-of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].
-- [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
-might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
-founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
-Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
-- Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
-- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
-- Really good for "Math types."
-- Uses geometry for proving things.
-- People unwisely considered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
-it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
-Nets.
 * Representative Student Theses
 These are students where I played a large role in their
 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions
 Computation]]
 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009
 - Is a completely new way to program computers.
 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].
-* Some /Real/ High school Reading
+* From Sussman's Bookshelf:
-- [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/cosmology-relativity-and-gravitation/first-course-general-relativity][A First Course in General Relativity]], by Bernard F Schultz
+- [[http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Network-Theory-Amar-Bose/dp/B0000CMXS1][Introductory Network Theory]], by A.G. Bose and K.N. Stevens
-- ISBN: 9780521277037
+- ASIN: B0000CMXS1
-- Readable, not too heavy.
+- Get the real story about RLC circuits!
-- Minimal dependencies
+- Obsolete -- it only covers linear circuits.
-- You can just go through it slowly and understand at each step.
+- [[http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Nonlinear-Circuits-Leon-Chua/dp/0070108986][Linear and Nonlinear Circuits]], by Chua, Desoler, and Kuh
-- [[http://www.amazon.com/Space-Special-Relativity-David-Mermin/dp/0881334200][Space and Time in Special Relativity]], by [[http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/][David Mermin]]
+- ISBN: 0070108986
-- ISBN: 0881334200
+- More up-to-date than /Network Theory/
-- HIGHLY accessible.
+- 10/10 would teach
-- This will change your life.
+- Mathematically very clear
-- You will understand special relativity!
+- [[http://frank.harvard.edu/aoe/][The Art of Electronics]], by Horowitz & Hill
-- [[http://www.feynmanlectures.info/][The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]
+- ASIN: B001ERDQVI
-- Highly understandable
+- Practical
-- Just go there and learn something already!
+- Beautiful
-- [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]]
+- [[http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Design-Analog-Integrated-Circuits/dp/0471574953/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401819423&sr=1-1&keywords=Analysis+and+Design+of+Analog+Integrated+Circuits+3rd+edition][Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits]], by Grey and
-- A trove of wonderful ideas!
+Meyer
+- ISBN: 0471574953
-- [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democritus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]]
+- Get the 2nd or 3rd edition, not later ones.
-- Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with
-a philosophical outlook.
+- [[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-survey-of-modern-algebra][A Survey of Modern Algebra]], by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders
+MacLane
-- Bible, Talmud, Koran
+- ISBN: 9781568814544
-- Read them whether or not you believe them!
+- Goes all the way to Galois Theory!
-- Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what
+- Clear!
-people were actually thinking back then.
-- Very interesting documents!
+- [[http://usf.usfca.edu/vca//][Visual Complex Analysis]], Needham
-- [[http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm][Bava Metzia 59b]] is an interesting story!
+- ISBN: 0198534469
+- Easy reading, well written
+- Wonderful use of graphics!
+- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/solid-shape][Solid Shape]], Jan Koenderink
+- ISBN: 026211139X
+- Just good!
+- [[http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/theoretical-physics-and-mathematical-physics/probability-theory-logic-science][Probability: the Logic of Science]], by E.T. Jaynes
+- ISBN: 9780521592710
+- OMG just read this already!
+- Here's [[http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html][some]] [[http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html][links]] to the book.
+- This book will change your life, and make probability make
+sense. Truly excellent book.
+- Why aren't you reading this!?
+- [[http://www.perseusacademic.com/book.php?isbn=0805390219][Calculus on Manifolds]], Spivak
+- ISBN: 9780805390216
+- Great Mathematical notation!
+- Was an inspiration for [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM]].
+- Book contains a great flame!
+- [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258635.The_Variational_Principles_of_Mechanics][The Variational Principles of Mechanics]], by Cornelius Lanczos
+- ISBN: 0486650677
+- Very philosophic; deep.
+- You could read it 100 times and learn something new each time!
+- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][Computers and Thought]], by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
+Feldman (Editor).
+- ISBN: 0262560925
+This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
+AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
+papers are not very interesting.
+- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms]],
+by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
+- ISBN: 9780262013895
+- I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
+- [[http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199549078.do][Principles of Development]], by Wolpert
+- ISBN: 0199554285
+- [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1547380.A_Genetic_Switch][A Genetic Switch]], by Mark Ptashne
+- ISBN: 0865423156
+- Such clarity!
+- [[http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/mark-ptashne/genetic-switch-lecture-series][Lecture Series Based on the book!]]
+- [[http://making-of-a-fly.me/][The Making of a Fly]], by Peter A. Lawrence
+- ISBN: 0632030488
+- Probably out of date already, but very well written!
+- [[http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Formation-Ciliate-Studies-Models/dp/0195048903][Pattern Formation: Ciliate Studies and Models]], by Joseph Frankel
+- ISBN: 0195048903
+- My type of book!
+- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/harmonic-mind][The Harmonic Mind]], Volumes 1 and 2, by Smolenck and Legendre
+- ISBN: 9780262516198
+- I'm very interested in the amazing latency of the human
+brain. This book presents a way by which multiple stages of
+computation can be folded together into a single computation,
+and is an interesting hypothesis about how the mind might work!
+- [[http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2013-Hardcover-Edition][The Radio Amateur's Handbook]], [[http://www.arrl.org/][ARRL]]
+- /practical/ electronics book
+- They've been making this book for about 100 years!
+- [[http://www.amazon.com/Radiotron-Langford-Smith-Reproduced-Distributed-Corporation/dp/B000JILVH4][Radiotron Designer's Handbook, 4th edition, RCA]]
+- ASIN: B000JILVH4
+- I'm very interested in hi-fi.
+* Marvin Minsky
+Minsky really made me as a person. He was my adviser when I was a
+student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetism"
+to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
+right amount of negligence and delegation to create an environment
+where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
+seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
+knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
+Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
+preparation!
+- http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
+including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and
+papers. Check it out!
+- [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
+short, self-contained essay about the various
+- [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
+can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
+of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].
+- [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
+might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
+founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
+Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
+- Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
+- [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
+- Really good for "Math types."
+- Uses geometry for proving things.
+- People unwisely considered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
+it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
+Nets.
+* For Fun
+- [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point]], by Huw Price
+- ISBN: 0195117980
+- A reasonable philosopher!
+- [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by
+Clifford M. Will
+- ISBN: 0465090869
+- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein
+- ISBN: 0441790348
+- [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy
+- ISBN: 1449388396
+- Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
+example.
+- But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures
+what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.
 * Selected works by Sussman
 - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)]] This is
 the textbook of [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/][6.946]], a class in Classical Mechanics that Sussman
 generally teaches in the Fall.
 Report on the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60]]
 - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/calculus-indexed.pdf][Functional Differential Geometry]] Treatment of functional
 differential geometry in the classic SIC[M/P] style.
-* For Fun
-- [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point]], by Huw Price
-- ISBN: 0195117980
-- A reasonable philosopher!
-- [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by
-Clifford M. Will
-- ISBN: 0465090869
-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein
-- ISBN: 0441790348
-- [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy
-- ISBN: 1449388396
-- Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
-example.
-- But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures
-what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.

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