rlm@97: #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List
rlm@97: #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)
rlm@97: #+email: rlm@mit.edu
rlm@97: #+description: sussman's reading recommendations
rlm@97: #+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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rlm@97: 
rlm@97: * Recommendations
rlm@97:   
rlm@97: 
rlm@97:   - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
rlm@97:     Feldman (Editor). 
rlm@97:     
rlm@97:     - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Thought-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp/0262560925][Amazon]]
rlm@97:     - ISBN: 0262560925
rlm@97:   
rlm@97:     This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
rlm@97:     AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
rlm@97:     papers are not very interesting. 
rlm@97: 
rlm@97: 
rlm@98:   - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]], by Marvin Minsky.
rlm@98: 
rlm@98:   - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@98:     
rlm@98:     - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
rlm@98:     - Really good for "Math types."
rlm@98:     - Uses geometry for proving things. 
rlm@98:     - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets
rlm@98: 
rlm@99:   - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@99:     
rlm@99:   - Music, Mind, and Meaning, by Marvin Minsky
rlm@99:     
rlm@99:     Minsky really made me as a person...
rlm@98: 
rlm@99:   - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
rlm@99:     by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
rlm@98: 
rlm@99:     [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
rlm@97: 
rlm@99:     - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
rlm@99: 
rlm@100: * TODO Should Add DSPACE links
rlm@100: * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
rlm@99: * Student Theses
rlm@97:   
rlm@99:   - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
rlm@99:     Real-World Knowledge  
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:     - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:   - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine 
rlm@99:     
rlm@99:     - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today.
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:   - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier
rlm@99:     Design
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:     - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.'
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:   - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation
rlm@99:     System for Mathematics
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:     - very hard, very deep
rlm@99:     - you will need to know a lot of Math
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:   - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and
rlm@99:     Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
rlm@99: 
rlm@99:     - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
rlm@99:     - Solve problems using graphs.
rlm@99:     - So cool!
rlm@99: 
rlm@100:   - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active
rlm@100:     Control of Buckling
rlm@100:     - Such a good idea
rlm@100:     - cool, short, great idea
rlm@100:     - no one's followed up on it
rlm@100:   
rlm@100:   - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +
rlm@100:     Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of
rlm@100:     Chaotic Synamical sysstem
rlm@100:     
rlm@100:     - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked
rlm@100:     - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.
rlm@100: 
rlm@100:   - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible
rlm@100:     and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.
rlm@100: 
rlm@100:   - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach
rlm@100:     to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
rlm@100:     - interesting to programmers
rlm@100: 
rlm@100:   - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing
rlm@100:     Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and
rlm@100:     Origami Mathematics
rlm@100:     - interesting to programmers
rlm@100: 
rlm@100:   - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using
rlm@100:     Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
rlm@100:     - interesting to programmers
rlm@100:     
rlm@100:   - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation
rlm@100: 
rlm@100:   - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: * Things Micah should read
rlm@100:   
rlm@100:   - Wolpert Principles of development
rlm@100:   - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
rlm@100:   - Lawrence the making of a fly
rlm@100:   - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: * Things rlm should read
rlm@100:   - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
rlm@100:   
rlm@100: * For fun
rlm@100:   - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
rlm@100:     - a reasonable philisopher
rlm@100:   - was einstein right? (clifford will)
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: * Everybody should know:
rlm@100:   - fundamental physics
rlm@100:     - classical mechanics
rlm@100:     - E & M
rlm@100:     - relativity
rlm@100:     - QM
rlm@100:   - mathemeatics
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
rlm@100:   - readable
rlm@100:   - not too heavy
rlm@100:   - you can just go through it...
rlm@100:   - minimal dependencies
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
rlm@100:   - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
rlm@100:     outlook
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - Bible + friends
rlm@100:   - whether or not you believe it
rlm@100:   - read between the lines
rlm@100:   - discover what people were actually thinking
rlm@100:   - very interesting document
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - Stranger in a strange land 
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
rlm@100:   - /practical/ electronics book
rlm@100:   - done for 100 years
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
rlm@100:   - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
rlm@100: 
rlm@100: - Hackers, by Steven Levy
rlm@100:   - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
rlm@100:     example. 
rlm@100:   - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
rlm@101: 
rlm@101: 
rlm@101: * From house interview
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
rlm@101:     - beautiful, best book. 
rlm@101:     - obsolete, only linear 
rlm@101:     - get the real story about RLC circuits
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
rlm@101:     - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
rlm@101:     - 10/10 would teach
rlm@101:     - mathematically very clear
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
rlm@101:     - practical
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
rlm@101:     and integrated circuits"
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
rlm@101:     - all the wau to gaoias theory
rlm@101:     - clear
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
rlm@101:     - Easy reading, well written
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
rlm@101:     - just good
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
rlm@101:     - great notation, inspiration for SICM
rlm@101:     - great flame
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos 
rlm@101:     - very phisolic
rlm@101:     - deep
rlm@101:     - read 100 times, learn something new each time
rlm@101:     
rlm@101:   - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
rlm@101:     - can be read by H.S. student
rlm@101:     - will change your life
rlm@101:     - you will understand special relativity!
rlm@101: 
rlm@101:   - faynman lectures
rlm@101:     - learn something
rlm@101:     - understandable
rlm@101: 
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