Machine Learning34 reviews Tom M. Mitchell McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1997 Good presentation of concepts + Please bow down to Tom Mitchell + Excellent Book, but for Academia Only + Outstanding + Great Start to Machine Learning             Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)9 reviews John R. Koza The MIT Press, 1992 The essential reference for GP + Unique book on the implementation of genetic programming + Great introduction. + Must Have for all GP students + Genetic Programming             Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Beginner's Guide2 reviews Helen Causton, John Quackenbush, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 2003 Well written, short explanations but nevertheless understandable + A good introduction to the topic Certainly, this book can not give a complete description of microarrays, neither from an experimental nor a theoretical side. Nevertheless, the issues presented and discussed provide the reader with a solid basis for more advanced studies. In my opinion, this book is well written, the ...             Microsound6 reviews Curtis Roads The MIT Press, 2004 Definitive guide to granular synthesis + Perfect + droppin' science + Microsound             Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max2 reviews Todd Winkler The MIT Press, 2001 An in-depth look at MAX and its applications + A perfect companion for Max users on all levels. MAX is an object-oriented graphical programming environment for creating music and multimedia used for over fifteen years by composers, performers, software designers, researchers and artists interested in creating interactive compositions. MAX reuses the patchable modular analog synthesizer ...             An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems)17 reviews Melanie Mitchell The MIT Press, 1998 An introduction and much more + A Great Introduction to Genetic Algorithms First it must be said that the book is not an introduction that the non-scientist will easily understand. Some knowledge of computer programming is assumed. It acknowledges this in the last paragraph of the preface. Many of the notations in the book are unfamiliar to business or financial readers. ...             Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, No 6) (Harmonologia Series, No ...5 reviews Iannis Xenakis Pendragon Pr, 2001 Unique theory book for music based on mathematics + Great for anyone interested in algorithmic composition + Difficult but profitable + Xenakis and the road not taken             An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic for Practical Applications7 reviews Kazuo Tanaka Springer, 1996 Excellent starting point + A perfect intorduction to fuzzy logic + Good introduction, with some errors + Fast entry to notation + Breezy Intro to Fuzzy Logic             Experiments in Musical Intelligence (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series)2 reviews David Cope A-R Editions, 1996 Fine overview of Cope's significant work + discovering the essentials of music composition David Cope's signifcant theories of musical creativity as recombination are advocated articulately and aptly demonstrated through his ground-breaking EMI software program. Descriptions of the process give an insight into the working process of this system which allows for thinking about the ...             Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes1 review The MIT Press, 1997 Essential reference for anyone interested in encoding of music The purpose of this book is to provide a general description, with encoded examples, of numerous ways of representing music in the computer. This book is a collection of chapters by different authors each describing a musical code, usually the format of an input or data file for a music program. ...             Music and Probability1 review David Temperley The MIT Press, 2007 Shows the link between musical style, perception, and probability If music perception is largely probabilistic in nature this should not be surprising since probability pervades almost every aspect of mental life. Thus the author invokes a number of concepts from probability theory and probabilistic modeling, relying most heavily on Bayes Rule, an axiom of ...             Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)79 reviews Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig Prentice Hall, 2002 Fantastic Textbook + A landmark + Good theoretical book. Needs update though. As a student with a very strong background in technical fields I am no stranger to heavy studying, reference, and in some cases even total reliance on textbooks. I have encountered many kinds of textbooks, some which get the job done, some which do the same painfully, and unfortunately a select few ...             Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition20 reviews Christopher M. Bishop Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Sheer pleasure. + Only for an expert + Fabulous + It makes a difficult topic easy to understand + Recomended book to read             Notes from the Metalevel: An Introduction to Computer Composition (Studies on New Music Research)4 reviews Heinrich Taube Routledge, 2004 A must-have book for computer-assisted music composers + One of the best newer books on algorithmic composition + Algorithmic Composition I reviewed this book for the Computer Music Journal, giving it an overwhelmingly positive review. Since then I've re-read the book in its entirety, and my opinion has changed somewhat: If Amazon had six stars to give then I'd give it all six. :) This is a first-class book for anyone interested ...             Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos/Book and Disk1 review Julien Clinton Sprott M & T Books, 1993 Fascinating book on computer generated art and music In many ways, people largely stopped writing interesting programming books about ten years ago, once so much software became available to do so many jobs without us needing to be aware of the painful yet interesting details. This is a long out-of-print book on fractals that merges math, ...             Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science12 reviews Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, ... Springer, 2004 Simply a fantastic book + It's all true: Best single source on fractals-but get the 1st ed. + Excellent tutorial on nonlinearity + A good introduction             The World According to Wavelets: The Story of a Mathematical Technique in the Making13 reviews Barbara Burke Hubbard AK Peters, Ltd., 1998 It can be done! + tells the story well + Excellent Introduction to Wavelets + Good for start             Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition2 reviews AAAI Press, 1992 Pioneering investigations of musical behavior + Preliminary to subsequent research in machine music Understanding Music with AI is an introduction to Cognitive Musicology, the term understood as a science of mental representations of music. The book introduces formal models for otherwise taken-for-granted musical activities such as composing, analyzing music, listening, performing music, etc. ...             The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)12 reviews Michael Miller Alpha, 2005 great book + Well-written, focused on the conventional + Simple training for a complex topic + a gift + Excellent resource.             The Nonlinear Workbook: Chaos, Fractals, Celluar Automata, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Gene ...2 reviews Willi-Hans Steeb World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005 explains many key ideas + Exact same content as the cheaper and sturdy paperback version Here is a text of advanced nonlinear dynamics. Geared towards the intensive use of computers to perform the necessary grungework. Steeb hits on many important ideas that have emerged in recent decades. He shows the interrelation between chaotic phenomena and fractals, and how fractals can be used ...