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Classic Books

(Holland 1975) Holland, J. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. The MIT Press.

(Minsky and Papert, 1969) Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert. Perceptrons . MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969.

Classic Papers

(Allen 1984) Allen, J. F. Towards a general theory of action and time. Artificial Intelligence 23: 123-154.

Chomsky, Noam, 1957, “Syntactic Structures,” Number IV in Janua Linguarum. Mouton, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Firth, John Rupert, 1957, “A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory 1930-1955,” pp. 1-32 in the Philological Society’s Studies in Linguistic Analysis. Blackwell, Oxford. Reprinted in Selected Papers of J.R. Firth, F. Palmer (ed.), Longman, 1968.

Good, Irving J., 1953, “The Population Frequencies of Species and the Estimation of Population Parameters,” Biometrika 40(3,4):237-264.

Harris, Zellig, 1951, Methods in Structural Linguistics,University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by Phoenix Books in 1960 under the title Structural Linguistics.

(McCulloch and Pitts 1943) W.S. McCulloch and W.~Pitts. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Bull. of Math. Biophysics, 5:115--137, 1943.

Montague, Richard, 1974, Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague, Richmond H. Thomason (ed.),Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.

Mosteller, Frederick, and David L. Wallace, 1984, Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference: The Case of the Federalist Papers, Springer-Verlag. First edition published in 1964 under the title Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist.

Pollard, Carl, and Ivan Sag, 1994, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Chicago Press and CSLI Publications.

Saffran, Jenny R., Richard N. Aslin, and Elissa L. Newport, 1996, “Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants,” Science 274(5294):1926-1928, December.

(Selfridge 1956) Oliver G. Selfridge. Pattern recognition and learning. In Colin Cherry, editor, Proceedings of the Third London Symposium on Information Theory, New York, New York, 1956. Academic Press.

Shannon, Claude E., 1948, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” Bell System Technical Journal 27:379-423 and 623-656.

Weaver, Warren, 1949, “Translation,” Memorandum. Reprinted in W.N. Locke and A.D. Booth, eds., Machine Translation of Languages: Fourteen Essays,MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1955.