# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1401399253 14400 # Node ID 1f28328737ed37c03eca07b1fedefdafc823f2f2 # Parent c7272bb5394e364682172cf4a4ba0570a261f9f1 transcribe all loose sheets. diff -r c7272bb5394e -r 1f28328737ed org/sussman-reading-list.org --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Mon May 26 02:19:52 2014 -0400 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Thu May 29 17:34:13 2014 -0400 @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!) +* TODO Should Add DSPACE links +* TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts * Student Theses - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using @@ -73,3 +75,94 @@ - Solve problems using graphs. - So cool! + - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active + Control of Buckling + - Such a good idea + - cool, short, great idea + - no one's followed up on it + + - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) + + Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of + Chaotic Synamical sysstem + + - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked + - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work. + + - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible + and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE. + + - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach + to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer + - interesting to programmers + + - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing + Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and + Origami Mathematics + - interesting to programmers + + - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using + Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks + - interesting to programmers + + - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation + + - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis + +* Things Micah should read + + - Wolpert Principles of development + - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne + - Lawrence the making of a fly + - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!) + +* Things rlm should read + - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre + +* For fun + - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price) + - a reasonable philisopher + - was einstein right? (clifford will) + +* Everybody should know: + - fundamental physics + - classical mechanics + - E & M + - relativity + - QM + - mathemeatics + + +- Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity" + - readable + - not too heavy + - you can just go through it... + - minimal dependencies + + +- Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus" + - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical + outlook + + +- Bible + friends + - whether or not you believe it + - read between the lines + - discover what people were actually thinking + - very interesting document + +- Stranger in a strange land + + +- radio amateur's handbook ARRL + - /practical/ electronics book + - done for 100 years + +- Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition + - "I'm very interested in hi-fi." + +- Hackers, by Steven Levy + - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for + example. + - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! + +