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	Gerald Jay Sussman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sussman is a coauthor (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of the introductory computer science textbook used at MIT.
		Sussman's contributions to artificial intelligence include problem solving by debugging almost-right plans, propagation of constraints applied to electrical circuit analysis and synthesis, dependency-based explanation and dependency-based backtracking, and various language structures for expressing problem-solving strategies.
		Sussman was also the lead designer of the Supercomputer Toolkit, another multiprocessor computer optimized for evolving systems of ordinary differential equations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman (718 words)

	Station Information - Gerald Jay Sussman
		Gerald Jay Sussman is the Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Sussman is a coauthor (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of the introductory computer science textbook used at M.I.T. The textbook, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, has been translated into French, German, Chinese, and Japanese.
		Sussman was the principal designer of the Digital Orrery, a machine designed to do high-precision integrations for orbital-mechanics experiments.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gerald_jay_sussman.html (663 words)

	Gerald Sussman's talk on Amorphous Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sussman began by describing the computational scenario that he is interested in working with.
		Sussman gave assurances that one could reach this situation from an initial configuration where the processors were completely identical (though you might need to prompt the edge processors to let them know where the left and right ends belong).
		The third illustration shows an approach Sussman came up with for assigning coordinate systems to avoid the "tight corners" that appear in the left illustration: Establish a boundary around the region, then use a wave of messages confined to the boundary to establish a parameter (theta) that increases as you go around the boundary.
	willware.net:8080 /sussman.html (1649 words)

	Biographical sketch of Gerald Jay Sussman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic (formerly Matsushita) Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Sussman is a coauthor (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of the introductory computer science textbook used at M.I.T. The textbook, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," has been translated into French, German, Chinese, Polish, and Japanese.
		Sussman and Wisdom, with Meinhard Mayer, have produced a textbook, "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics," to capture these ideas.
	www.swiss.ai.mit.edu /~gjs/biography.html (615 words)

	Gerald Sussman, 56, Humorist and Author - New York Times
		Gerald Sussman, a humorist and advertising copywriter, died early Sunday in Alford, Mass., after a bronchial asthmatic attack while visiting friends.
		Sussman was an associate creative director in the sales promotion department at Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertising concern.
		Sussman was born in Manhattan on April 2, 1933, and graduated from Brooklyn College.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5D7163EF932A05753C1A96F948260 (223 words)

	Sussman, Gerald: Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To answer these questions, author Gerald Sussman looks beyond the techno-functional aspects of product and process and focuses instead on the human agents and institutions involved in the making of information technologies.
		Sussman begins with a look at theory and then reviews the social history of communication technology.
		Through his carefully detailed and critical analysis, Sussman demystifies the political and social inner workings of communication technologies and guides readers to an understanding of the real meaning of the information revolution.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=IMWX5 (208 words)

	DBLP: Gerald J. Sussman
		Gerald J. Sussman: Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily formulated ideas.
		Francesco Stolfi, Gerald J. Sussman: Telecommunications and Transnationalism: The Polarization of Social Space.
		Gerald J. Sussman, Matthew Halfant: Tutorial: Abstraction in Numerical Methods.
	ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sussman:Gerald_J=.html (304 words)

	CSAIL Biography
		Skordos and Gerald Jay Sussman, Proceedings of ISMA 95, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Le Normont, France, July 1995.
		II: Numerical results for the nonrotating case,'' Curt Cutler, Lee Samuel Finn, Eric Poisson, and Gerald Jay Sussman, Phys.
		* ``Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic,'' Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, in Science, 241, 22 July 1988.
	www.csail.mit.edu /biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=55 (1395 words)

	Gerald Jay Sussman
		Gerald Jay Sussman with the world's biggest brass rat
		``A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge,'' Kenneth Yip and Gerald Jay Sussman, MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo 1575, March 1996.
		``Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic,'' Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, in
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /~gjs/gjs.html (919 words)

	Amazon.com: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics: Books: Gerald Jay Sussman,Jack Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This textbook takes an innovative approach to the teaching of classical mechanics, emphasizing the development of general but practical intellectual tools to support the analysis of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems.
		Sussman's and Wisdom's text, "The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics", provides a wonderful example.
		Here is a book providing further proof that (a) great science necessarily includes excellent writing and communications, (b) brilliant scientists tend to be the best writers in their fields, and (c) a text book on a difficult subject can be remarkably enjoyable as well as informative when well conceived and well written.
	www.amazon.com /Structure-Interpretation-Classical-Mechanics-Sussman/dp/0262194554 (1751 words)

	OOPSLA'05—Why Programming is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood and Sloppily Formulated Ideas
		Gerald Jay Sussman, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
		I have stolen my title from the title of a paper given by Marvin Minsky in the 1960s, because it most effectively expresses what I will try to convey in this talk.
		I will defend this viewpoint with examples and demonstrations from electrical engineering and from classical mechanics.
	www.oopsla.org /2005/ShowEvent.do?id=403 (504 words)

	Gerald Sussman on expressing poorly-understood ideas in programs
		Gerald Sussman on expressing poorly-understood ideas in programs
		Gerald Sussman, one of the fathers of the Scheme programming language, and considered as being among the best teachers of computing in the States, was one of the invited speakers at OOPSLA 2005.
		In the frame of the "Dynamic Languages Symposium", he gave a talk titled "Why Programming is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood and Sloppily Formulated Ideas".
	www.xhovemont.be /archive/2005/10/28/1057.aspx (221 words)

	Amazon.com: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Books: Harold Abelson,Gerald Sussman,Julie Sussman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But I think part of it is because Sussman and Abelson have succeeded grandly in communicating "this strange way of thinking" to (some but not all) people who otherwise would never get there.
		But Abelson and Sussman presented a richer and more powerful approach - software systems as layers of languages and linguistic abstractions, with linguistic abstractions serving primarily as means of formulating and exploring problems and, only then, as means of specifying algorithms for computers to execute.
		They get that point across by providing reasonably challenging exercises in LISP using first functional programming (the lambda is fun!!), then data abstractions and generic programming (you end up writing a symbolic algebra program), followed by objects and state (the delayed stream approach is really nice).
	www.amazon.com /Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Abelson/dp/0070004846 (2868 words)

	Scheme Programming with MIT/GNU Scheme
		It was originally developed by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman in 1975.
		It is a functional programming language and has lexical scoping, tail-recursion, applicative order reduction, first-class functions, first-class continuations, garbage collection and uses lambda calculus.
		Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: lectures - Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
	www.uvm.edu /~ashawley/scheme (404 words)

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