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1 #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List2 #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu4 #+description: Professor Sussman's reading recommendations5 #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org8 #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both10 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file11 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the12 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).14 * For fun15 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)16 - a reasonable philisopher17 - was einstein right? (clifford will)19 - Stranger in a strange land21 - Hackers, by Steven Levy22 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for23 example.24 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!26 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading28 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"29 - readable30 - not too heavy31 - you can just go through it...32 - minimal dependencies34 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity35 - can be read by H.S. student36 - will change your life37 - you will understand special relativity!39 - faynman lectures40 - learn something41 - understandable44 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky46 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"47 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical48 outlook51 - Bible + friends52 - whether or not you believe it53 - read between the lines54 - discover what people were actually thinking55 - very interesting document57 * From Sussman's Bookshelf59 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens60 - beautiful, best book.61 - obsolete, only linear62 - get the real story about RLC circuits64 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh65 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/66 - 10/10 would teach67 - mathematically very clear69 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill70 - practical72 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue73 and integrated circuits"75 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland76 - all the wau to gaoias theory77 - clear79 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham80 - Easy reading, well written82 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink83 - just good85 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes87 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak88 - great notation, inspiration for SICM89 - great flame91 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos92 - very phisolic93 - deep94 - read 100 times, learn something new each time96 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL97 - /practical/ electronics book98 - done for 100 years100 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition101 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."103 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian104 Feldman (Editor).105 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]106 - ISBN: 0262560925107 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in108 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included109 papers are not very interesting.111 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,112 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz114 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895116 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)118 - Wolpert Principles of development119 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne120 - Lawrence the making of a fly121 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)123 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre125 * Marvin Minsky126 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a127 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"128 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the129 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment130 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was131 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific132 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,133 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without134 preparation!136 - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,137 including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and138 papers. Check it out!140 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a141 short, self-contained essay about the various143 - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who144 can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one145 of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].147 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we148 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the149 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing150 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].152 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky153 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112154 - Really good for "Math types."155 - Uses geometry for proving things.156 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,157 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural158 Nets.160 * Representative Student Theses162 These are students where I played a large role in their163 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions164 that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of165 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,166 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never167 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it168 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found169 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can170 find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]].172 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising173 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person174 to get them working!176 - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!177 - Two papers:178 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical179 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.180 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.181 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.182 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement.183 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of184 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple185 experiment.186 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because187 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements.189 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]190 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994191 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating192 vibrational modes.193 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!194 - No one's followed up on it!196 In historical order:198 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]199 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977200 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later201 invented.203 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]]204 - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981205 - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can206 really /do/ today.208 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]]209 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984210 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.212 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]]213 - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987214 - Very hard, very deep.215 - You will need to know a lot of Math.217 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical218 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]]219 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989220 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!221 - Solve problems using graphs.222 - So cool!224 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating225 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]]226 - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999227 - Interesting to programmers especially.229 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using230 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]]231 By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001232 - Also Interesting to programmers.234 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic235 Regulatory Networks]]236 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001237 - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should238 be highly interesting to programmers.240 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]241 - By Jake Beal, 2001242 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the243 brain learn to talk to each other.244 - Someone should expand on this work!245 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to246 Communicate]], 2007248 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]]249 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006.251 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for252 Computation]]253 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009254 - Is a completely new way to program computers.255 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].