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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 this11 * TODO add sicm and other sussmans13 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file14 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the15 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).17 * From Sussman's Bookshelf19 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Network-Theory-Amar-Bose/dp/B0000CMXS1][Introductory Network Theory]], by A.G. Bose and K.N. Stevens20 - ASIN: B0000CMXS121 - Get the real story about RLC circuits!22 - Obsolete -- it only covers linear circuits.24 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Nonlinear-Circuits-Leon-Chua/dp/0070108986][Linear and Nonlinear Circuits]], by Chua, Desoler, and Kuh25 - ISBN: 007010898626 - More up-to-date than /Network Theory/27 - 10/10 would teach28 - Mathematically very clear30 - [[http://frank.harvard.edu/aoe/][The Art of Electronics]], by Horowitz & Hill31 - ASIN: B001ERDQVI32 - Practical33 - Beautiful35 - [[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 and36 Meyer37 - ISBN: 047157495338 - Get the 2nd or 3rd edition, not later ones.40 - [[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-survey-of-modern-algebra][A Survey of Modern Algebra]], by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders41 MacLane42 - ISBN: 978156881454443 - Goes all the wau to Galois Theory!44 - Clear!46 - [[http://usf.usfca.edu/vca//][Visual Complex Analysis]], Needham47 - ISBN: 019853446948 - Easy reading, well written49 - Wonderful use of graphics!51 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/solid-shape][Solid Shape]], Jan Koenderink52 - ISBN: 026211139X53 - Just good!55 - [[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. Jaynes56 - ISBN: 978052159271057 - OMG just read this already!58 - Here's [[http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html][some]] [[http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html][links]] to the book.59 - This book will change your life, and make probability make60 sense. Truly excellent book.61 - Why aren't you reading this!?63 - [[http://www.perseusacademic.com/book.php?isbn=0805390219][Calculus on Manifolds]], Spivak64 - ISBN: 978080539021665 - Great Mathematical notation!66 - Was an inspiration for [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM]].67 - Book contains a great flame!69 - [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258635.The_Variational_Principles_of_Mechanics][The Variational Principles of Mechanics]], by Cornelius Lanczos70 - ISBN: 048665067771 - Very philosophic; deep.72 - You could read it 100 times and learn something new each time!74 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian75 Feldman (Editor).76 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]77 - ISBN: 026256092578 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in79 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included80 papers are not very interesting.82 - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,83 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz85 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 978026201389587 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)89 - Wolpert Principles of development90 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne91 - Lawrence the making of a fly92 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)94 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre96 - 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."104 * Marvin Minsky105 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a106 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"107 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the108 right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment109 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was110 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific111 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,112 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without113 preparation!115 - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,116 including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and117 papers. Check it out!119 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a120 short, self-contained essay about the various122 - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who123 can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one124 of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].126 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we127 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the128 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing129 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].131 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky132 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112133 - Really good for "Math types."134 - Uses geometry for proving things.135 - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,136 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural137 Nets.139 * Representative Student Theses141 These are students where I played a large role in their142 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions143 that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of144 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,145 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never146 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it147 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found148 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can149 find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]].151 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising152 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person153 to get them working!155 - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!156 - Two papers:157 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical158 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.159 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.160 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.161 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement.162 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of163 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple164 experiment.165 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because166 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements.168 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]169 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994170 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating171 vibrational modes.172 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!173 - No one's followed up on it!175 In historical order:177 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]178 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977179 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later180 invented.182 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]]183 - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981184 - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can185 really /do/ today.187 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]]188 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984189 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.191 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]]192 - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987193 - Very hard, very deep.194 - You will need to know a lot of Math.196 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical197 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]]198 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989199 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!200 - Solve problems using graphs.201 - So cool!203 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating204 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]]205 - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999206 - Interesting to programmers especially.208 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using209 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]]210 By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001211 - Also Interesting to programmers.213 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic214 Regulatory Networks]]215 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001216 - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should217 be highly interesting to programmers.219 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]220 - By Jake Beal, 2001221 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the222 brain learn to talk to each other.223 - Someone should expand on this work!224 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to225 Communicate]], 2007227 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]]228 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006.230 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for231 Computation]]232 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009233 - Is a completely new way to program computers.234 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].236 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading238 - [[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 Schultz239 - ISBN: 9780521277037240 - Readable, not too heavy.241 - Minimal dependencies242 - You can just go through it slowly and understand at each step.244 - [[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]]245 - ISBN: 0881334200246 - HIGHLY accessible.247 - This will change your life.248 - You will understand special relativity!250 - [[http://www.feynmanlectures.info/][The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]251 - Highly understandable252 - Just go there and learn something already!254 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]]255 - A trove of wonderful ideas!257 - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democratus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]]258 - Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with259 a philosophical outlook.261 - Bible, Talmud, Koran262 - Read them whether or not you believe them!263 - Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what264 people were actually thinking back then.265 - Very interesting documents!266 - [[http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm][Bava Metzia 59b]] is an interesting story!268 * For Fun269 - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price270 - ISBN: 0195117980271 - A reasonable philisopher!273 - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by274 Clifford M. Will275 - ISBN: 0465090869277 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein278 - ISBN: 0441790348280 - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy281 - ISBN: 1449388396282 - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for283 example.284 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures285 what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.