rlm@97: #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List rlm@97: #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre) rlm@97: #+email: rlm@mit.edu rlm@103: #+description: Professor Sussman's reading recommendations rlm@97: #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT rlm@97: #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org rlm@97: #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org rlm@97: #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both rlm@97: rlm@115: * TODO something about the point of this rlm@117: * TODO add sicm and other sussmans rlm@115: rlm@104: If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file rlm@104: that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the rlm@104: page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). rlm@104: rlm@113: * From Sussman's Bookshelf rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Network-Theory-Amar-Bose/dp/B0000CMXS1][Introductory Network Theory]], by A.G. Bose and K.N. Stevens rlm@117: - ASIN: B0000CMXS1 rlm@117: - Get the real story about RLC circuits! rlm@117: - Obsolete -- it only covers linear circuits. rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Nonlinear-Circuits-Leon-Chua/dp/0070108986][Linear and Nonlinear Circuits]], by Chua, Desoler, and Kuh rlm@117: - ISBN: 0070108986 rlm@117: - More up-to-date than /Network Theory/ rlm@101: - 10/10 would teach rlm@117: - Mathematically very clear rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://frank.harvard.edu/aoe/][The Art of Electronics]], by Horowitz & Hill rlm@117: - ASIN: B001ERDQVI rlm@117: - Practical rlm@117: - Beautiful rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[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 and rlm@117: Meyer rlm@117: - ISBN: 0471574953 rlm@117: - Get the 2nd or 3rd edition, not later ones. rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-survey-of-modern-algebra][A Survey of Modern Algebra]], by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders rlm@117: MacLane rlm@117: - ISBN: 9781568814544 rlm@117: - Goes all the wau to Galois Theory! rlm@117: - Clear! rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://usf.usfca.edu/vca//][Visual Complex Analysis]], Needham rlm@117: - ISBN: 0198534469 rlm@101: - Easy reading, well written rlm@117: - Wonderful use of graphics! rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/solid-shape][Solid Shape]], Jan Koenderink rlm@117: - ISBN: 026211139X rlm@117: - Just good! rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[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. Jaynes rlm@117: - ISBN: 9780521592710 rlm@117: - OMG just read this already! rlm@117: - Here's [[http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html][some]] [[http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html][links]] to the book. rlm@117: - This book will change your life, and make probability make rlm@117: sense. Truly excellent book. rlm@117: - Why aren't you reading this!? rlm@101: rlm@117: - [[http://www.perseusacademic.com/book.php?isbn=0805390219][Calculus on Manifolds]], Spivak rlm@117: - ISBN: 9780805390216 rlm@117: - Great Mathematical notation! rlm@117: - Was an inspiration for [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM]]. rlm@117: - Book contains a great flame! rlm@101: rlm@117: - The Variational Principles of Mechanics, by Cornelius Lanczos rlm@117: - Very philosophical; deep. rlm@117: - You could read it 100 times and learn something new each time! rlm@101: rlm@113: - radio amateur's handbook ARRL rlm@113: - /practical/ electronics book rlm@113: - done for 100 years rlm@101: rlm@113: - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition rlm@113: - "I'm very interested in hi-fi." rlm@103: rlm@113: - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian rlm@113: Feldman (Editor). rlm@113: - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]] rlm@113: - ISBN: 0262560925 rlm@113: This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in rlm@113: AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included rlm@113: papers are not very interesting. rlm@113: rlm@113: - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms, rlm@113: by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz rlm@113: rlm@113: [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895 rlm@113: rlm@113: - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!) rlm@113: rlm@113: - Wolpert Principles of development rlm@113: - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne rlm@113: - Lawrence the making of a fly rlm@113: - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!) rlm@113: rlm@113: - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre rlm@103: rlm@103: * Marvin Minsky rlm@103: Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a rlm@103: student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim" rlm@103: to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the rlm@103: right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment rlm@103: where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was rlm@103: seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific rlm@103: knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry, rlm@103: Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without rlm@103: preparation! rlm@103: rlm@112: - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here, rlm@111: including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and rlm@111: papers. Check it out! rlm@103: rlm@111: - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a rlm@111: short, self-contained essay about the various rlm@103: rlm@112: - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who rlm@112: can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one rlm@112: of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]]. rlm@103: rlm@103: - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we rlm@103: might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the rlm@103: founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing rlm@103: Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]]. rlm@103: rlm@103: - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky rlm@103: - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112 rlm@103: - Really good for "Math types." rlm@103: - Uses geometry for proving things. rlm@103: - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact, rlm@103: it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural rlm@103: Nets. rlm@104: rlm@104: * Representative Student Theses rlm@104: rlm@104: These are students where I played a large role in their rlm@104: education. Many of them represent compelling research directions rlm@104: that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of rlm@104: researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new, rlm@104: go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never rlm@104: really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it rlm@104: leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found rlm@104: at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can rlm@104: find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]]. rlm@104: rlm@104: In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising rlm@104: and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person rlm@104: to get them working! rlm@104: rlm@106: - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision! rlm@106: - Two papers: rlm@106: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical rlm@106: Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992. rlm@106: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995. rlm@106: - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked. rlm@104: - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement. rlm@104: - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of rlm@104: magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple rlm@104: experiment. rlm@104: - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because rlm@104: you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. rlm@104: rlm@106: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]] rlm@106: - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994 rlm@104: - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating rlm@104: vibrational modes. rlm@104: - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great! rlm@104: - No one's followed up on it! rlm@104: rlm@104: In historical order: rlm@104: rlm@104: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]] rlm@104: - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977 rlm@104: - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later rlm@104: invented. rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]] rlm@107: - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981 rlm@107: - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can rlm@104: really /do/ today. rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]] rlm@104: - By Andrew Ressler, 1984 rlm@104: - If you're an Electrical Engineering person. rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]] rlm@107: - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987 rlm@104: - Very hard, very deep. rlm@104: - You will need to know a lot of Math. rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical rlm@107: Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]] rlm@104: - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989 rlm@104: - Coolest PhD thesis ever! rlm@104: - Solve problems using graphs. rlm@104: - So cool! rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating rlm@107: Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]] rlm@107: - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999 rlm@104: - Interesting to programmers especially. rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using rlm@107: Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]] rlm@107: By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001 rlm@104: - Also Interesting to programmers. rlm@104: rlm@107: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic rlm@107: Regulatory Networks]] rlm@107: - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001 rlm@107: - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should rlm@107: be highly interesting to programmers. rlm@104: rlm@104: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]] rlm@104: - By Jake Beal, 2001 rlm@104: - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the rlm@104: brain learn to talk to each other. rlm@104: - Someone should expand on this work! rlm@104: - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to rlm@104: Communicate]], 2007 rlm@104: rlm@108: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]] rlm@108: - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006. rlm@104: rlm@108: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for rlm@108: Computation]] rlm@108: - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009 rlm@108: - Is a completely new way to program computers. rlm@110: - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]]. rlm@113: rlm@117: * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading rlm@117: rlm@117: - [[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 Schultz rlm@117: - ISBN: 9780521277037 rlm@117: - Readable, not too heavy. rlm@117: - Minimal dependencies rlm@117: - You can just go through it slowly and understand at each step. rlm@117: rlm@117: - [[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]] rlm@117: - ISBN: 0881334200 rlm@117: - HIGHLY accessible. rlm@117: - This will change your life. rlm@117: - You will understand special relativity! rlm@117: rlm@117: - [[http://www.feynmanlectures.info/][The Feynman Lectures on Physics]] rlm@117: - Highly understandable rlm@117: - Just go there and learn something already! rlm@117: rlm@117: - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]] rlm@117: - A trove of wonderful ideas! rlm@117: rlm@117: - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democratus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]] rlm@117: - Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with rlm@117: a philosophical outlook. rlm@117: rlm@117: - Bible, Talmud, Koran rlm@117: - Read them whether or not you believe them! rlm@117: - Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what rlm@117: people were actually thinking back then. rlm@117: - Very interesting documents! rlm@117: - [[http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm][Bava Metzia 59b]] is an interesting story! rlm@117: rlm@115: * For Fun rlm@115: - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price rlm@115: - ISBN: 0195117980 rlm@115: - A reasonable philisopher! rlm@115: rlm@115: - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by rlm@115: Clifford M. Will rlm@115: - ISBN: 0465090869 rlm@115: rlm@115: - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein rlm@115: - ISBN: 0441790348 rlm@115: rlm@115: - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy rlm@115: - ISBN: 1449388396 rlm@115: - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for rlm@115: example. rlm@115: - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures rlm@115: what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.