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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 * TODO something about the point of this12 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file13 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the14 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).16 # NEEDS WORK18 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading20 - [[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 Schultz21 - ISBN: 978052127703722 - Readable, not too heavy.23 - Minimal dependencies24 - You can just go through it slowly and understand at each step.26 - [[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]]27 - ISBN: 088133420028 - HIGHLY accessible.29 - This will change your life.30 - You will understand special relativity!32 - [[http://www.feynmanlectures.info/][The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]33 - Highly understandable34 - Just go there and learn something already!36 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]]37 - A trove of wonderful ideas!39 - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democratus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]]40 - Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with41 a philosophical outlook.43 - Bible, Talmud, Koran44 - Read them whether or not you believe them!45 - Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what46 people were actually thinking back then.47 - Very interesting documents!48 - [[http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm][Bava Metzia 59b]] is an interesting story!50 * From Sussman's Bookshelf52 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens53 - beautiful, best book.54 - obsolete, only linear55 - get the real story about RLC circuits57 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh58 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/59 - 10/10 would teach60 - mathematically very clear62 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill63 - practical65 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue66 and integrated circuits"68 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland69 - all the wau to gaoias theory70 - clear72 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham73 - Easy reading, well written75 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink76 - just good78 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes80 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak81 - great notation, inspiration for SICM82 - great flame84 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos85 - very phisolic86 - deep87 - read 100 times, learn something new each time89 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL90 - /practical/ electronics book91 - done for 100 years93 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition94 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."96 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian97 Feldman (Editor).98 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]99 - ISBN: 0262560925100 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in101 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included102 papers are not very interesting.104 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,105 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz107 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895109 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)111 - Wolpert Principles of development112 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne113 - Lawrence the making of a fly114 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)116 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre119 # DONE121 * Marvin Minsky122 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a123 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"124 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the125 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment126 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was127 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific128 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,129 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without130 preparation!132 - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,133 including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and134 papers. Check it out!136 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a137 short, self-contained essay about the various139 - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who140 can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one141 of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].143 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we144 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the145 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing146 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].148 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky149 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112150 - Really good for "Math types."151 - Uses geometry for proving things.152 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,153 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural154 Nets.156 * Representative Student Theses158 These are students where I played a large role in their159 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions160 that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of161 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,162 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never163 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it164 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found165 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can166 find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]].168 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising169 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person170 to get them working!172 - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!173 - Two papers:174 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical175 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.176 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.177 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.178 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement.179 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of180 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple181 experiment.182 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because183 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements.185 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]186 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994187 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating188 vibrational modes.189 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!190 - No one's followed up on it!192 In historical order:194 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]195 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977196 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later197 invented.199 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]]200 - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981201 - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can202 really /do/ today.204 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]]205 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984206 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.208 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]]209 - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987210 - Very hard, very deep.211 - You will need to know a lot of Math.213 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical214 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]]215 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989216 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!217 - Solve problems using graphs.218 - So cool!220 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating221 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]]222 - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999223 - Interesting to programmers especially.225 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using226 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]]227 By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001228 - Also Interesting to programmers.230 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic231 Regulatory Networks]]232 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001233 - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should234 be highly interesting to programmers.236 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]237 - By Jake Beal, 2001238 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the239 brain learn to talk to each other.240 - Someone should expand on this work!241 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to242 Communicate]], 2007244 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]]245 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006.247 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for248 Computation]]249 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009250 - Is a completely new way to program computers.251 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].253 * For Fun254 - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price255 - ISBN: 0195117980256 - A reasonable philisopher!258 - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by259 Clifford M. Will260 - ISBN: 0465090869262 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein263 - ISBN: 0441790348265 - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy266 - ISBN: 1449388396267 - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for268 example.269 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures270 what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.