Optional Readings

Readings will be added to this page as they are made available by Summer School faculty members. Please check back often. Please note that you will need a copy of ghostview/ghostscript in order to view PostScript documents and Acrobat Reader to view PDF files.

Elizabeth Bradley

Bradley, Elizabeth. "Numerical Solution of Differential Equations." Research Report on Curricula and Teaching CT003-98, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998. [PostScript] [PDF]

Bradley, Elizabeth. "Time Series Analysis." in Intelligent Data Analysis: An Introduction, edited by M. Berthold and D.J. Hand, 167 - 194. Berlin; New York: Springer, 1999. [PostScript] [PDF]

Tom Carter

Shannon, C. E. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." The Bell System Technical Journal. 27(July, October) 1948: 379-423, 623-656. [Download Site] [PDF]

Carter, Thomas. "A Brief Survey of Linear Algebra." Notes, California State University, Stanislaus, 2001. [Download Site]

Jim Crutchfield

Crutchfield, James P.  "What Lies Between Order and Chaos?" In Art and Complexity, edited by J. Casti and A. Karlqvist, 31 - 46. The Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V., 2003. [pdf]

Crutchfield, James P. "Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence." In Complexity: Metaphores, Models, and Reality, edited by G. Cowan, D. Pines, and D. Melzner, 515 - 537. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol. XIX. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994. [pdf]

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla and Crutchfield, James P. "Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity." Working Paper 99-07-044, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 1999. [pdf]

Paul Higgs

Higgs, P.G. "RNA Secondary Structure: Physical and Computational Aspects." Quart. Rev. Biophys. 33(3) 2000: 199-253. [PDF]

Eigen, M., McCaskill, J. and Schuster, P. "Molecular Quasispecies." J. Phys. Chem. 92 1988: 6881-6891.

Huynen, M.A., Stadler, P.F. and Fontana, W. "Smoothness within ruggedness - the role of neutrality in adaptation." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 93 1996: 397-401. [PostScript] [PDF]

Page, R.D.M and Holmes, E.C. "Molecular Evolution: a phylogenetic approach." 1998

Jow, H., Hudelot, C., Rattray, M. and Higgs, P.G. "Bayesian phylogenetics using an RNA substitution model applied to early mammalian evolution." Mol. Biol. Evol. 19 2002: 1591-1601. [PDF]

Kevin McCabe

McCabe, K. Neuroeconomics Lecture Notes (file 1). 2003 [PowerPoint]

McCabe, K. Neuroeconomics Lecture Notes (file 2). 2003 [PowerPoint]

McCabe, K. Neuroeconomics Lecture Notes (file 3). 2003 [PowerPoint]

McCabe, K. Neuroeconomics Lecture Notes (file 4). 2003 [PowerPoint]

Melanie Mitchell

Forrest, S. and Mitchell, M. "Relative Building-Block Fitness and the Building-Block Hypothesis." In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 2, edited by D. Whitley. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. [PDF]

Mitchell, M. "Computation in Cellular Automata: A Selected Review." In Nonstandard Computation, edited by T. Gramss, S. Bornholdt, M. Gross, M. Mitchell, and T. Pellizzari, 95-140. Weinheim: VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998. [PDF]

Mitchell, M., Crutchfield, J. P., and Hraber, P. T. "Dynamics, Computation, and the 'Edge of Chaos': A Re-Examination." In Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality, edited by G. Cowan, D. Pines, and D. Melzner. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994. [PDF]

Pagie, L. and Mitchell, M. "A Comparison of Evolutionary and Coevolutionary Search." International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 2(1) (2002): 53-69. [PDF]

van Nimwegen, E., Crutchfield, J. P., and Mitchell, M. "Finite Populations Induce Metastability in Evolutionary Search." Physics Letters A 229(2) (1997): 144-150. [PDF]

Jonathan Shapiro

Slides from the introductory lecture. [PDF]

Jaynes, E. T. "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics." In Statistical Physics, edited by K. Ford. New York, NY: Benjamin, 1963. [PDF]

Sutton, Richard S. and Barto, Andrew G. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. [HTML]

H. Peyton Young

Young, H. Peyton. "The Economics of Convention." Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (2) 1996: 105-122. [PDF]

Young, H. Peyton. Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.