Books read 2001-02-15

• Richard P. Gabriel, Patterns of software

• Harry Potter books

• Orson Scott Card, Children of the mind

• Liza Marklund, Sprängaren

Books read 2001-04-28

• Vernor Vinge, A deepness in the sky

• Beginning GTK+/GNOME programming

• Are we alone?, Paul Davis

• The art of genes, Enrico Coen

• AMPL, A modeling language for mathematical programming

Book read by november 2001

• Vernor Vinge, A fire upon the deep

• Extreme programming installed

Waiting to be read

• David B. Fogel, Blondie24

• Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction

Recommended reading

• De Bono, Lateral thinking. Always get 5 alternatives before you implement!  

• 'Computer will be smarter than man' books

  • Ray Kurzweil, all of his books, the latest can be found on the web: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1

  • Stuart Kauffman, At home in the universe

  • Hans Moravec

  • Steven Levy, Artifical Life  

  • Kevin Warwick, In the mind of the machine

• The predictors, Thomas A. Bass

Snapshot of technical papers to be read

• Looked a lot at perfect hashing, it is really amazing what random can do.
• Game programming in Java. I have to implemented some of my boy's games, of course I would prefer O'Caml, but I need more 2D-support. Java2D is the answer (Clean could be an alternative, but I already know Java.)
• Radixsort