changeset 100:1f28328737ed

transcribe all loose sheets.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Thu, 29 May 2014 17:34:13 -0400
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     1.4  
     1.5      - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
     1.6  
     1.7 +* TODO Should Add DSPACE links
     1.8 +* TODO Also add thesis summaries / abstracts
     1.9  * Student Theses
    1.10    
    1.11    - 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman, A System for Representing and Using
    1.12 @@ -73,3 +75,94 @@
    1.13      - Solve problems using graphs.
    1.14      - So cool!
    1.15  
    1.16 +  - 1994: Andrew A. Berlin Towards Intelligent Structures: Active
    1.17 +    Control of Buckling
    1.18 +    - Such a good idea
    1.19 +    - cool, short, great idea
    1.20 +    - no one's followed up on it
    1.21 +  
    1.22 +  - Elmer Hung Paramater estimati(on in chaotic Systems (masters) +
    1.23 +    Athanassios Siapas : Global approach to parameter estimation of
    1.24 +    Chaotic Synamical sysstem
    1.25 +    
    1.26 +    - No one put enough effort into seeing if it worked
    1.27 +    - you will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work.
    1.28 +
    1.29 +  - 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul Propagation Networks: A Flexible
    1.30 +    and Expressive Substrate for Computation on DSPACE.
    1.31 +
    1.32 +  - 1999: Daniel Coore Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach
    1.33 +    to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
    1.34 +    - interesting to programmers
    1.35 +
    1.36 +  - 2001: Radhika Nagpal Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing
    1.37 +    Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and
    1.38 +    Origami Mathematics
    1.39 +    - interesting to programmers
    1.40 +
    1.41 +  - 2001: Ron Weiss Cellular Computation and Communications using
    1.42 +    Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
    1.43 +    - interesting to programmers
    1.44 +    
    1.45 +  - 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn Games, Puzzles, and Computation
    1.46 +
    1.47 +  - 2002: Jake Beal master's thesis
    1.48 +
    1.49 +* Things Micah should read
    1.50 +  
    1.51 +  - Wolpert Principles of development
    1.52 +  - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
    1.53 +  - Lawrence the making of a fly
    1.54 +  - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
    1.55 +
    1.56 +* Things rlm should read
    1.57 +  - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
    1.58 +  
    1.59 +* For fun
    1.60 +  - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
    1.61 +    - a reasonable philisopher
    1.62 +  - was einstein right? (clifford will)
    1.63 +
    1.64 +* Everybody should know:
    1.65 +  - fundamental physics
    1.66 +    - classical mechanics
    1.67 +    - E & M
    1.68 +    - relativity
    1.69 +    - QM
    1.70 +  - mathemeatics
    1.71 +
    1.72 +
    1.73 +- Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
    1.74 +  - readable
    1.75 +  - not too heavy
    1.76 +  - you can just go through it...
    1.77 +  - minimal dependencies
    1.78 +
    1.79 +
    1.80 +- Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
    1.81 +  - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
    1.82 +    outlook
    1.83 +
    1.84 +
    1.85 +- Bible + friends
    1.86 +  - whether or not you believe it
    1.87 +  - read between the lines
    1.88 +  - discover what people were actually thinking
    1.89 +  - very interesting document
    1.90 +
    1.91 +- Stranger in a strange land 
    1.92 +
    1.93 +
    1.94 +- radio amateur's handbook ARRL
    1.95 +  - /practical/ electronics book
    1.96 +  - done for 100 years
    1.97 +
    1.98 +- Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
    1.99 +  - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
   1.100 +
   1.101 +- Hackers, by Steven Levy
   1.102 +  - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
   1.103 +    example. 
   1.104 +  - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
   1.105 + 
   1.106 +