#12 – Tuomas Sandholm

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #12:

No books mentioned.

Tuomas Sandholm is an entrepreneur and Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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#11 –Juergen Schmidhuber

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #11:

No books mentioned.

Juergen Schmidhuber (@schmidhuberai) is a computer scientist most known for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning and artificial neural networks. He is is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs).

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#10 – Pieter Abbeel

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #10:

1. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

#9 – Stuart Russell

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #9:

1. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Peter Norvig and Stuart J. Russell
2. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells

#8 – Eric Schmidt

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #8:

1. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel

#7 – Jeff Atwood

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #7:

1. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
2. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
3. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
4. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
5. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister

#6 – Guido van Rossum

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #6:

1. Books by Willem Frederik Hermans
2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

#5 – Vladimir Vapnik

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #5:

1. The Second World War by Winston Churchill

#4 – Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist and one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal.

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#3 – Steven Pinker

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #3:

1. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
2. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
3. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
4. A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem by James L. Payne
5. One Two Three… Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
6. Time-Life Science by Various authors
7. Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky
8. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
9. Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
10. The Psychology of Communication by George Armitage Miller