# HG changeset patch # User rlm # Date 1401814769 14400 # Node ID ae2aaf23c99dbd53681fd3aeb8c8bdf2b63393dc # Parent 6c504a6a4413e991d287accec0918e5340768784 reorganize student papers; begin work on assembling links. diff -r 6c504a6a4413 -r ae2aaf23c99d org/sussman-reading-list.org --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 12:05:34 2014 -0400 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 12:59:29 2014 -0400 @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both +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]]). + * Recommendations - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian Feldman (Editor). @@ -25,67 +29,6 @@ * TODO Should Add DSPACE links * TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts -* Student Theses - - - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using - Real-World Knowledge - - - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was invented - - - 1981: Danny Hillis, The Connection Machine - - - Doesn't tell you anything you can really do today. - - - 1984: Andrew Ressler, A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier - Design - - - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.' - - - 1987: David A. McAllester, ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation - System for Mathematics - - - very hard, very deep - - you will need to know a lot of Math - - - 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip KAM: Automatic Planning and - Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods - - - Coolest PhD thesis ever! - - 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 @@ -231,3 +174,98 @@ - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact, it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural Nets. + +* Representative Student Theses + + These are students where I played a large role in their + education. Many of them represent compelling research directions + that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of + researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new, + 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]]. + + In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising + and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person + to get them working! + + - 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. + - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement. + - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of + magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple + experiment. + - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because + you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. + + - Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling + - By Andrew A. Berlin, 1994 + - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating + vibrational modes. + - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great! + - No one's followed up on it! + + In historical order: + + - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]] + - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977 + - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later + invented. + + - The Connection Machine + - By Danny Hillis, 1981 + - Beautiful thesis, but it doesn't tell you anything you can + really /do/ today. + + - A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design + - By Andrew Ressler, 1984 + - If you're an Electrical Engineering person. + + - ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics + - By David A. McAllester, 1987 + - Very hard, very deep. + - You will need to know a lot of Math. + + - KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical + Experiments Using Geometrical Methods + - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989 + - Coolest PhD thesis ever! + - Solve problems using graphs. + - So cool! + + - Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating + Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer + - By Daniel Coore, 1999 + - Interesting to programmers especially. + + - Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using + Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics + By Radhika Nagpal, 2001 + - Also Interesting to programmers. + + - Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic + Regulatory Networks + - By Ron Weiss, 2001 + - Third in a line of bio-papers which should be highly interesting + to programmers. + + - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]] + - By Jake Beal, 2001 + - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the + brain learn to talk to each other. + - Someone should expand on this work! + - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to + Communicate]], 2007 + + - Games, Puzzles, and Computation + - By Robert Aubrey Hearn, 2006. + + - Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for + Computation. + - By Alexey Andreyevich Radul, 2009 +