#+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List

 #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)

 #+email: rlm@mit.edu

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 * Recommendations

   

 

   - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian

     Feldman (Editor). 

     

     - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Thought-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp/0262560925][Amazon]]

     - 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://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]], by Marvin Minsky.

 

   - 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 consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets

 

   - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky

     

   - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky

     

     Minsky really made me as a person...

 

   - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,

     by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz

 

     [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895

 

     - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)

 

 * TODO Should Add DSPACE links

 * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts

 * Student Theses

   

   - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using

     Real-World Knowledge  

 

     - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented

 

   - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine 

     

     - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.

 

   - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier

     Design

 

     - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'

 

   - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation

     System for Mathematics

 

     - very hard, very deep

     - you will need to know a lot of Math

 

   - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and

     Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods

 

     - Coolest PhD thesis ever!

     - Solve problems using graphs.

     - So cool!

 

   - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active

     Control of Buckling

     - Such a good idea

     - cool, short, great idea

     - no one's followed up on it

   

   - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +

     Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of

     Chaotic Synamical sysstem

     

     - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked

     - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.

 

   - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible

     and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.

 

   - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach

     to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer

     - interesting to programmers

 

   - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing

     Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and

     Origami Mathematics

     - interesting to programmers

 

   - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using

     Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks

     - interesting to programmers

     

   - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation

 

   - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis

 

 * Things Micah should read

   

   - Wolpert Principles of development

   - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne

   - Lawrence the making of a fly

   - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)

 

 * Things rlm should read

   - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre

   

 * For fun

   - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)

     - a reasonable philisopher

   - was einstein right? (clifford will)

 

 * Everybody should know:

   - fundamental physics

     - classical mechanics

     - E & M

     - relativity

     - QM

   - mathemeatics

 

 

 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"

   - readable

   - not too heavy

   - you can just go through it...

   - minimal dependencies

 

 

 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"

   - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical

     outlook

 

 

 - Bible + friends

   - whether or not you believe it

   - read between the lines

   - discover what people were actually thinking

   - very interesting document

 

 - Stranger in a strange land 

 

 

 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL

   - /practical/ electronics book

   - done for 100 years

 

 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition

   - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."

 

 - Hackers, by Steven Levy

   - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for

     example. 

   - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!

 

 

 * From house interview

 

   - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens

     - beautiful, best book. 

     - obsolete, only linear 

     - get the real story about RLC circuits

 

   - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh

     - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/

     - 10/10 would teach

     - mathematically very clear

 

   - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill

     - practical

 

   - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue

     and integrated circuits"

 

   - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland

     - all the wau to gaoias theory

     - clear

 

   - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham

     - Easy reading, well written

 

   - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink

     - just good

 

   - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes

 

   - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak

     - great notation, inspiration for SICM

     - great flame

 

   - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos 

     - very phisolic

     - deep

     - read 100 times, learn something new each time

     

   - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity

     - can be read by H.S. student

     - will change your life

     - you will understand special relativity!

 

   - faynman lectures

     - learn something

     - understandable