Gerald Jay Sussman with the world's biggest brass rat

Fall Term: I am teaching an unusual course in classical mechanics with Jack Wisdom. See it here.

Spring Term: I am teaching a class in symbolic programming. See it here.

Some powerful Scheme software that is used in my classes can be obtained here.

Selected Publications of Gerald Jay Sussman

• Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, with Will Farr; Functional Differential Geometry, MIT Press, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-262-01934-7.
• Alexey Radul and Gerald Jay Sussman; "Revised Report on the Propagator Model", documentation and system, August 2010.
• Alexey Radul and Gerald Jay Sussman; "The Art of the Propagator," MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-002; Abridged version in Proc. 2009 International Lisp Conference, March 2009.
• Jacob Beal and Gerald Jay Sussman; "Engineered Robustness by Controlled Hallucination," in AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium: "Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence", November 2008.
• Daniel J. Weitzner, Harold Abelson, Tim Berners-Lee, Joan Feigenbaum, James Hendler, and Gerald Jay Sussman; "Information Accountability," in Communications of the ACM, 51 , 6, June 2008.
• Gerald Jay Sussman, "The Legacy of Computer Science," in Computer Science, Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field, pp.180--183, The National Academies Press, 2004.
• Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight, and Gerald Jay Sussman, "Genetic Process Engineering," in Cellular Computing, Martyn Amos editor, pp.43--73, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight, and Gerald Jay Sussman, "Cellular Computation and Communication Using Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks," in Cellular Computing, Martyn Amos editor, pp.120--147, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, second edition, Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, MIT Press, 2014.
  ISBN 978-0-262-02896-7.
• "Cellular Gate Technology," Thomas F. Knight and Gerald Jay Sussman, Proc. UMC98, First International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation, Auckland, NZ, January 1998.
• "Sparse Representations for Fast, One-shot learning", Kenneth Yip and Gerald Jay Sussman, Proc. of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 1997.
  A longer version appears as MIT AI Lab Memo #1633, May 1998
• "A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge," Kenneth Yip and Gerald Jay Sussman, MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo 1575, March 1996.
• "Amorphous Computing," Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight, Jr., Radhika Nagpal, Erik Rauch, Gerald Jay Sussman, Ron Weiss, in Communications of the ACM , 43 , 5, May 2000. Also as MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo 1665, August 1999.
• "Comparison between subsonic flow simulation and physical measurements of flue pipes," Panayotis. A. Skordos and Gerald Jay Sussman, Proceedings of ISMA 95, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Le Normont, France, July 1995. Also MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo 1535, April 1995.
• "Spin-induced Orbital Precession and its Modulation of the Gravitational Waveforms from Merging Binaries," T.A. Apostolatos, C. Cutler, G.J. Sussman and K.S. Thorne, Phys. Rev. D., 15 June 1994.
• "Gravitational radiation from a particle in circular orbit around a black hole. II: Numerical results for the nonrotating case," Curt Cutler, Lee Samuel Finn, Eric Poisson, and Gerald Jay Sussman, Phys. Rev. D., 47, No. 4, pp 1511--1517, Feb 1993.
• "The last three minutes: measurements of coalescing compact binaries with LIGO," C. Cutler, T.A. Apostolatos, L. Bildsten, L.S. Finn, E.E.Flanagan, D. Kennefick, D.M. Markovic, A. Ori, E. Poisson, G.J. Sussman, and K.S. Thorne, Phys. Rev. Letters, 70, pp. 2984--2988.
• "Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System," Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, Science, 257, 3 July 1992.
• "The Supercomputer Toolkit: A general framework for special-purpose computing," with A. Berlin, J. Katzenelson, W. McAllister, G. Rozas, G. J. Sussman, and Jack Wisdom, International Journal of High-Speed Electronics, 3, no. 3, pp. 337--361, 1992.
• "Intelligence in Scientific Computing," Hal Abelson, M. Eisenberg, M. Halfant, J. Katzenelson, E. Sacks, G.J. Sussman, J. Wisdom, K. Yip, CACM, 32, no. 5, May 1989.
• "The Dynamicist's Workbench I: Automatic preparation of numerical experiments," Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, in Symbolic Computation: Applications to Scientific Computing, R. Grossman (ed.), Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, vol. 5, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadephia, 1989.
• "Lisp: a Language for Stratified Design," Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, Byte Magazine, February 1988, pp. 207--218.
• "The Lisp Experience," Hal Abelson, Matthew Halfant, Jacob Katzenelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, Annual Review of Computer Science, 3, 1988, pp. 167--195.
• "Abstraction in Numerical Methods," Matthew Halfant and Gerald Jay Sussman, Proc. ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming, 1988.
• "Advanced Computing for Science," Piet Hut and Gerald Jay Sussman, Scientific American, 255, no. 10, October 1987.
• "Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic," Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, in Science, 241, 22 July 1988.
• "The Outer Solar System for 200 Million Years," James Applegate, M. Douglas, Y. Gursel, Gerald Jay Sussman, Jack Wisdom, Astronomical Journal, 92, pp 176-194, July 1986, reprinted in Lecture Notes in Physics #267 -- Use of supercomputers in stellar dynamics, Springer Verlag, 1986.
• "A Digital Orrery," James Applegate, M. Douglas, Y. Gursel, P Hunter, C. Seitz, Gerald Jay Sussman, in IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-34, No. 9, pp. 822-831, September 1985, reprinted in Lecture Notes in Physics #267 -- Use of supercomputers in stellar dynamics, Springer Verlag, 1986.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 1985, second edition 1996,
  ISBN 0-262-01153-0.
  (published translations in French, Japanese, Polish, Chinese, Korean, and German).
• "A Model of the Radio-Continuum Filaments in the Galactic Center," P.J. Quinn and Gerald Jay Sussman, Astrophysics Journal, 288, No.1, pp. 377-384, January 1985.
• "The Best Length for a Mainspring," Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, Newsletter of the Massachusetts Watchmaker's Association, pp. 8-11, June 1991.

Students who have completed PhD theses supervised by Gerald Jay Sussman.

• 1976: Allen Leon Brown
  Qualitative Knowledge, Causal Reasoning and the Localization of Failures
• 1977: Drew Vincent McDermott
  Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits
• 1977: Scott Elliot Fahlman
  A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge
• 1978: Dick Waters
  Automatic Analysis of the Logical Structure of Programs
• 1979: Johan deKleer
  Causal and Teleological Reasoning in Circuit Recognition
• 1979: Howie Shrobe
  Dependency Directed Reasoning for Complex Program Understanding
• 1979: Robert Carter Moore
  Reasoning about Knowledge and Action
• 1980: Guy Lewis Steele Jr.
  The Definition and Implementation of a Computer Programming Language Based on Constraints
• 1980: Jon Doyle
  A Model for Deliberation, Action, and Introspection
• 1981: Charles Rich
  Inspection Methods in Programming
• 1981: Danny Hillis
  The Connection Machine
• 1981: Richard Brown
  Coherent Behavior from Incoherent Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Synthesis of Numerical Computer Programs
• 1983: Thomas Francis Knight
  Design of an Integrated Optical Sensor with On-Chip Preprocessing
• 1984: Andrew Ressler
  A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design
• 1984: Kenneth Forbus
  Qualitative Process Theory
• 1987: Daniel Weise
  Formal Multilevel Hierarchical Verification of Synchronous MOS Circuits
• 1987: David A. McAllester
  ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics
• 1988: Elisha Sacks
  Automatic Qualitative Analysis of Ordinary Differential Equations Using Piecewise Linear Approximations
• 1989: Kenneth Man-Kam Yip
  KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
• 1990: Gerald L. Roylance
  Causality, constraint, & mechanism in a computer program for designing circuits
• 1991: John Dino Batali
  Automatic Acquisition and Use of Some of the Knowledge in Physics Texts
• 1992: Alan Bawden
  Linear Graph Reduction: Confronting the Cost of Naming
• 1992: Feng Zhao
  Automatic Analysis and Synthesis of Controllers for Dynamical Systems Based On Phase-Space Knowledge
• 1992: Elizabeth Bradley
  Taming Chaotic Circuits
• 1993: Guillermo Juan Rozas
  Translucent Procedures, Abstraction without Opacity
• 1994: Franklyn Turbak
  Slivers: Computational Modularity via Synchronized Lazy Aggregates
• 1994: Andrew A. Berlin
  Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling
• 1995: Jon Rees
  A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda-Calculus
• 1995: Panayotis Skordos
  Modeling Flue Pipes: Subsonic Flow, Lattice Boltzmann, and Parallel Distributed Computers
• 1996: Thanos Siapas
  Criticality and Parallelism in Combinatorial Optimization
• 1996: Brian LaMacchia
  Internet Fish
• 1999: Daniel Coore
  Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer
• 1999: Rajeev Surati
  Scalable Self-Calibrating Display Technology for Seamless Large-Scale Displays
• 2001: Radhika Nagpal
  Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics
• 2001: Ron Weiss
  Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
• 2004: Erik Rauch
  Diversity in Evolving Systems: Scaling and Dynamics of Genealogical Trees
• 2005: Attila Kondacs
  Determining articulator configuration in voiced stop consonants by matching time-domain patterns in pitch periods
• 2006: Robert Aubrey Hearn
  Games, Puzzles, and Computation
• 2007: Jake Beal
  Learning by Learning to Communicate
• 2007: Piotr Mitros
  Constraint-Satisfaction Modules: A Methodology for Analog Circuit Design
  on DSPACE.
• 2009: Alexey Andreyevich Radul
  Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation
  on DSPACE.
• 2012: Julie Erin Norville
  Modular Design of Biological Systems
• 2014: Micah Zev Brodsky
  Synthetic Morphogenesis: Space, time, and deformation

Recommended Books by the Family of Gerald Jay Sussman

• I CAN READ THAT! A Traveler's Introduction to Chinese Characters.
  by Julie Mazel Sussman
  China Books & Periodicals
• HEAVE HO! My Little Green Book of Seasickness.
  by Charles Mazel
• "And don't call me a racist!" A treasury of quotes on the past, present, and future of the color line in America
  Selected and arranged by Ella Mazel
• AHEAD OF HER TIME: A Sampler of the Life and Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft.
  Excerpts from the letters and writings of the great pioneer of the feminist movement,
  Selected and arranged by Ella Mazel

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