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
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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@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!
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