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Personal Info:
Joe  leads the architecture of an experimental OS's developer platform, where
he is also chief architect of its programming language. His current mission is to enable
writing large-scale software that is reliable, secure, and scalable by-construction. Before this, Joe
founded the Parallel Extensions to .NET project.
He has been granted 19 patents, with 49 pending. When not working, Joe enjoys travelling with his wife,
writing books, writing music,
studying music theory & mathematics, and doing anything involving food & wine.
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The content of this site are my own personal opinions and do
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© 2012, Joe Duffy
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 Thursday, October 02, 2008
It's been quite some time since I blogged about what I've been reading. That's not because I haven't been reading -- au contraire! -- but rather because I've been busy doing so. I find these posts interesting for myself, so that I can look back and see where my interests were at a particular point in time. Given the sheer number of additions, I can’t properly rate them like I have in the past. Here are the more interesting ones, those that stick out in my mind:
Music
- Theory of Harmony, Arnold Schoenberg. 1922.
- Psychology of Music, Carl E. Seashore. 1938.
- Study of Counterpoint, John J. Fux. 1965.
- The Study of Fugue, Alfred Mann. 1987.
- Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century, Knud Jeppessen. 1992.
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff. 2001.
- Guitar Man: A Six-String Oddyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me, Will Hodgkinson. 2006.
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks. 2008.
Mathematics
- Euclid's Elements (Books 1 - 13). 300 BC.
- The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton and Andrew Motte. 1846.
- Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Alonzo Church. 1944.
- Foundations of Algebraic Topology, Samuel Eilenberg and Norman Steenrod. 1952.
- Foundations of Mathematical Logic, Haskell B. Curry. 1963.
- Diophantus Of Alexandria -A Study In The History Of Greek Algebra, Sir Thomas L. Heath. 1964.
- From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting, Constance Reid. 1964.
- Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math, Joseph Mazur. 2006.
- Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra, John Derbyshire. 2007.
- God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History, Stephen Hawking. 2007.
- Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics (Modern Library Chronicles), David Berlinski. 2008.
Computers
- LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual, John McCarthy. 1962.
- Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, Marvin Lee Minsky. 1967.
- The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling (Volume I: Parsing), Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972.
- The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling (Volume II: Compiling), Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1973.
- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth 1976.
- A Discipline of Programming, Edsger W. Dijkstra. 1976.
- Architecture of Concurrent Programs, Per Brinch Hansen. 1977.
- The Elements of Programming Style, Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. 1978.
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas, Seymour Papert. 1980.
- Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective, Edsger W. Dijkstra. 1982.
- CLU: Reference Manual (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), B. Liskov, et al. 1983.
- Algorithms and Data Structures, Niklaus Wirth. 1985.
- Communicating Sequential Processes, C. A. R. Hoare. 1985.
- The Little LISPer, Third Edition, Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen. 1989.
- Common LISP, The Language, Second Edition, Guy Steele. 1990.
- The High Performance FORTRAN Handbook, Charles H. Koelbel, et. Al. 1993.
- 201 Principles of Software Development, Alan M. Davis. 1995.
- Algol-like Languages (Progress in Theoretical Computer Science), Peter O’Hearn and Robert Tennent. 1996.
Based on this list, you might surmise that I read a lot. ;) In fact, I typically have between 3 and 5 books going simultaneously (how parallel of me), so I use the term "read" somewhat nontraditionally. I prefer to absorb the information by immersing myself in many books in the same genre simultaneously, instead of committing to a single one. This seems to be effective, but is also slightly odd and perhaps quite esoteric to other people; the result is that every room in my home is littered with books each in some possibly long-forgotten state of being "read" (along with tattered academic papers, language manuals, etc). I like it, but some people believe this is an indication that I’m a tad insane. C’est la vie.
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