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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Thu, 29 May 2014 17:34:13 -0400
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1 #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List
2 #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)
3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
4 #+description: sussman's reading recommendations
5 #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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11 * Recommendations
14 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
15 Feldman (Editor).
17 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Thought-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp/0262560925][Amazon]]
18 - ISBN: 0262560925
20 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
21 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
22 papers are not very interesting.
25 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]], by Marvin Minsky.
27 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
29 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
30 - Really good for "Math types."
31 - Uses geometry for proving things.
32 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets
34 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
36 - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
38 Minsky really made me as a person...
40 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
41 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
43 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
45 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
47 * TODO Should Add DSPACE links
48 * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
49 * Student Theses
51 - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
52 Real-World Knowledge
54 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
56 - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine
58 - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
60 - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
61 Design
63 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
65 - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
66 System for Mathematics
68 - very hard, very deep
69 - you will need to know a lot of Math
71 - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
72 Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
74 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
75 - Solve problems using graphs.
76 - So cool!
78 - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active
79 Control of Buckling
80 - Such a good idea
81 - cool, short, great idea
82 - no one's followed up on it
84 - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +
85 Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of
86 Chaotic Synamical sysstem
88 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked
89 - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.
91 - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible
92 and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.
94 - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach
95 to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
96 - interesting to programmers
98 - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing
99 Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and
100 Origami Mathematics
101 - interesting to programmers
103 - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using
104 Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
105 - interesting to programmers
107 - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation
109 - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis
111 * Things Micah should read
113 - Wolpert Principles of development
114 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
115 - Lawrence the making of a fly
116 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
118 * Things rlm should read
119 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
121 * For fun
122 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
123 - a reasonable philisopher
124 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
126 * Everybody should know:
127 - fundamental physics
128 - classical mechanics
129 - E & M
130 - relativity
131 - QM
132 - mathemeatics
135 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
136 - readable
137 - not too heavy
138 - you can just go through it...
139 - minimal dependencies
142 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
143 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
144 outlook
147 - Bible + friends
148 - whether or not you believe it
149 - read between the lines
150 - discover what people were actually thinking
151 - very interesting document
153 - Stranger in a strange land
156 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
157 - /practical/ electronics book
158 - done for 100 years
160 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
161 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
163 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
164 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
165 example.
166 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!