These are papers to have read. Frank Ritter and ACS Lab, 10 sept 2011 / revised 7may12 / 17dec14/26jun15/20sep18/20may19/30jun22
Theory of Science and Academia
- The Glassbead Game, Hesse. A novel/allegory about the life of a scientist (check out http://abebooks.com)
- What color is your parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Bolles, 10 Speed Press, any edition after 1985 [at ABEbooks]. Book that helps you know what you want to work on. Do the exercises. My favorite book.
- "Desires and Diversions", Newell talking about how to do science Watch on YouTube
- What they did not teach in you graduate school, 199 helpful hints, Gray & Drew. Read this book now before leaving graduate school. It applies more for PhD than MS, but it applies to all professionals. [2nd Edition]
- Been there done that, hints from undergrads to undergrads(I and II). Book with simple hints on getting work done and doing well at a university
- The structure of scientific revolutions, Kuhn. Book on how science and how science changes gradually and not gradually
- Sciences of the artificial, Simon. Book that has multiple readings possible. I have read it multiple times.
- The mythical man-month, Brooks. Short book on how teams work and don't work Download PDF / On Amazon
- The Pragmatic Programmer, how to manage your code, and theories realised as code Online PDF / On Amazon
- IST 590 web site
- Tomorrow's professor today, book and web site and mailing list. useful topics
- Taking a message to Garcia (finding the link is part of the process)
- The movie "Paterno". I am supena-able. Available Through HBO and Amazon
- Bob Newhart, "Should have read the book" Watch on YouTube
- Bob Newhart, "Stop it" Watch on YouTube
- Phillip Guo's memoir of being a graduate student, The PhD grind
Modeling
- "You can't play 20 questions with nature and win", Newell, 1973. You can't, but we try. Argues architecture is a better approach.
- Unified theories of cognition, 1990, Newell, or precis of it in BBS.
- Pew & Mavor, 98; Pew & Mavor, 07; Ritter, Shadbolt, Baxter, Elliman, & Young, 2003. Summaries of modeling and possible projects
- Modeling Behavior Integrated Cognitive Architectures Gluck and Pew's book on comparing architectures. Useful thinking fodder.
- "Testing the null hypothesis and the strategy and tactics of investigating theoretical models". Grant, 1962, on explaining and testing models. My favorite paper.
- Booher and Minniger 1998 chapter on success factors for simulation, and how simulations of people have save the Army millions of $$
- Marr, Vision, get a used copy if you can
- Ritter, Baxter, Jones, & Young, supporting cog models as users, argues for eyes and hands for models
- Psychology of HCI, Card, Moran, & Newell. classic book or classic shorter journal article
- How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? Anderson. Book summarising where ACT-R was in 2007 WRT mapping ACT-R to the brain.
- "Computer science as an empirical enquiry", Newell & Simon
- Soar, on GitHub
- ACT-R, something on it (can be from ACT-R FAQ on ACS site, or, ehh, from act-r.psy.cmu.edu)
Running studies and psychology for modeling and HCI
Writing Papers
- Common writing mistakes that I hate
- Some tips for academic writing and using Microsoft Word [tech report] also will appear in ACM Xrds
- Strunk and White, The elements of style, any edition. First book to read on writing. Online PDF [4th ed.] / On Amazon
- "The science of scientific writing", Gopen & Swan, 1990. Journal article, useful for some writing problems.
- Bugs in writing. Easy to digest book on tactical writing mistakes to avoid.
- Style, Ten lessons in clarity and grace, Williams. A deep, heavy, thoughtful book on how to write well, explained to me by a German (!).
Software to know