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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 26 May 2014 02:19:52 -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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     9 



    10 



    11 * Recommendations



    12   



    13 



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



    15     Feldman (Editor). 



    16     



    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



    19   



    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. 



    23 



    24 



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



    26 



    27   - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky



    28     



    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



    33 



    34   - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky



    35     



    36   - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky



    37     



    38     Minsky really made me as a person...



    39 



    40   - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,



    41     by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz



    42 



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



    44 



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



    46 



    47 * Student Theses



    48   



    49   - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using



    50     Real-World Knowledge  



    51 



    52     - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented



    53 



    54   - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine 



    55     



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



    57 



    58   - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier



    59     Design



    60 



    61     - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'



    62 



    63   - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation



    64     System for Mathematics



    65 



    66     - very hard, very deep



    67     - you will need to know a lot of Math



    68 



    69   - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and



    70     Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods



    71 



    72     - Coolest PhD thesis ever!



    73     - Solve problems using graphs.



    74     - So cool!



    75