# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1429488602 25200 # Node ID a5d107180b16930e64d2253dadc53e5e22c6b2e5 # Parent 42b447a048aa891acc16af17c2893c2a12d0cb93 prepare sussman reading list for inclusion on hompage. diff -r 42b447a048aa -r a5d107180b16 org/sussman-reading-list.org --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Sun Apr 19 03:58:17 2015 -0700 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Sun Apr 19 17:10:02 2015 -0700 @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ --Robert McIntyre #+END_QUOTE -If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file -that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the -page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). +# If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file +# that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the +# page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). (In Progress!) * Some /Real/ High school Reading @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ * Representative Student Theses +#+BEGIN_QUOTE These are students where I played a large role in their education. Many of them represent compelling research directions that desperately need to be extended by the next generation of @@ -67,8 +68,10 @@ go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found - at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. If you want to cite any of these papers, you can - find bibtex citations here: [[./sussman-recs.bib]]. + at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]]. + + --Prof. Sussman +#+END_QUOTE In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person @@ -231,7 +234,7 @@ - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms]], by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz - ISBN: 9780262013895 - - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!) + - I learned a lot reading this. - [[http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199549078.do][Principles of Development]], by Wolpert - ISBN: 0199554285 @@ -265,6 +268,8 @@ - I'm very interested in hi-fi. * Marvin Minsky + +#+BEGIN_QUOTE Minsky really made me as a person. He was my adviser when I was a student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetism" to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the @@ -275,6 +280,9 @@ Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class well without preparation! + --Prof. Sussman +#+END_QUOTE + - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here, including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and papers. Check it out! @@ -316,8 +324,8 @@ - ISBN: 1449388396 - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for example. - - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures - what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days. + - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! "This book really captures + what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days." * Selected works by Sussman