Suggested Reading
Here is a list of some introductory books on the topics covered in this degree.
- R. Arkin
Behavior Based Robotics
- George A. Bekey
Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control
- Margaret Boden
Mind as Machine. A History of Cognitive Science - V. Braitenberg
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
- Cynthia L. Breazeal
Designing Sociable Robots
- R. Brooks
Flesh and Machines
- Andy Clark
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence
- Andy Clark
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Andy Clark
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
- P. Coveney and R. Highfield
Frontiers of Complexity
- P. Dayan and L. F. Abbott
Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
- Kenneth A. De Jong
Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach
- D. Dennett
Darwins Dangerous Idea
- G. Dyson
Darwin among the Machines
- Tibor Ganti
The Principles of Life
- J. Holland
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems
- O. Holland and D. McFarland
Artificial Ethology
- E. M. Izhikevich
Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience. The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting
- Stuart A. Kauffman
The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution
- K. Kelly
Out of Control: The new biology of machines
- Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
- S. Levy
Artificial Life: The Quest for a new creation - P. Menzel and F. D'aluisio
Robo Sapiens - S. Nolfi and D. Floreano
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines
- Susan Oyama
The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution
- R. Pfeifer and J.C. Bongard
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence
- R. Pfeifer and C. Scheier
Understanding Intelligence
- R.F. Port and T. vanGelder
Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition
- K. Sigmund
Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
- John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary
The Major Transitions in Evolution
- Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith
A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action
- S. Thrun, W. Burgard and D. Fox
Probabilistic Robotics
- W. M. Waldrop
Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos
- P. Wallich "Silicon Babies"
Scientific American. December 1991, pages 82-91. - Barbara Webb and Thomas R. Consi (Eds.)
Biorobotics
- Michael Wheeler
Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The next step , MIT Press. 2005. - Mitchell Whitelaw
Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life