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Gerald Jay Sussman

Gerald Jay Sussman

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
34
Citations
10386
World Ranking
9111
National Ranking
2542

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to artificial intelligence, computer languages, and computer science education.
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For applications of artificial intelligence and for computer science education.
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - ACM Fellow For his important and pioneering work in teaching introductory computer science. Among his many contributions in this area ate the Scheme programming language, and the well known text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, written with Harold Abelson.
  • 1990 - ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award For his important and pioneering work in teaching introductory computer science. Among his many contributions in this area are the Scheme programming language, and the well known text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, written with Harold Abelson.
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Gerald Jay Sussman is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed to the field of social sciences with a focus on communication, media technology, strategy and management, as well as sociology and political science. Their research covers a range of topics, primarily centered on smart cities and technologies, media studies and communication, social media and politics, political influence and corporate strategies, and Jewish and Middle Eastern studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Nakba and the US-Israel Imperial Regime," 2024, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
  • "Propaganda and the Cold War," 2021, Journalism & Communication Monographs
  • "Vincent Mosco 2019: The Smart City in a Digital World. Bingley: Emerald Publishing," 2020, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • "Making Enemies: the Mainstream Media Spectacle and US Foreign Policy," 2020, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology

Their works have been published in several academic venues, particularly:

  • Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
  • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • Journalism & Communication Monographs

Frequent co-authors do not appear in the data available, indicating independent contributions or a lack of recurring collaborators in recent works.

Sussman has been recognized with a number of awards across their career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2004
  • IEEE Fellow, 2002, for contributions to artificial intelligence, computer languages, and computer science education
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2000, for applications of artificial intelligence and for computer science education
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996
  • ACM Fellow, 1994, noted for pioneering work in teaching introductory computer science, particularly the Scheme programming language and the text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, 1990, with recognition for influential contributions to computer science education
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1990

Best Publications

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson;Gerald Jay Sussman;Julie Sussman

  • Amorphous computing

    Harold Abelson;Don Allen;Daniel Coore;Chris Hanson

  • Spin-induced orbital precession and its modulation of the gravitational waveforms from merging binaries.

    Theocharis A. Apostolatos;Curt Cutler;Gerald J. Sussman;Kip S. Thorne

  • A Computer Model of Skill Acquisition

    Gerald Jay Sussman

  • Information accountability

    Daniel J. Weitzner;Harold Abelson;Tim Berners-Lee;Joan Feigenbaum

  • Scheme: A Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus

    Gerald Jay Sussman;Guy L. Steele

  • Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System

    Gerald J. Sussman;Jack Wisdom

  • A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition

    Gerald J. Sussman

  • Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic

    Gerald Jay Sussman;Jack Wisdom

  • Games, Puzzles, and Computation

    Erik D. Demaine;Gerald J. Sussman;Robert Aubrey Hearn

  • Gravitational radiation from a particle in circular orbit around a black hole. II. Numerical results for the nonrotating case.

    Curt Cutler;Lee Samuel Finn;Eric Poisson;Gerald Jay Sussman

  • The Revised Report on SCHEME: A Dialect of LISP.

    Guy Lewis Steele;Gerald Jay Sussman

  • Botanical computing: a developmental approach to generating interconnect topologies on an amorphous computer

    Daniel N. Coore;Gerald J. Sussman;Harold Abelson

  • Programmable self-assembly: constructing global shape using biologically-inspired local interactions and origami mathematics

    Radhika Nagpal;Gerald Jay Sussman;Harold Abelson

  • Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

    Gerald Jay Sussman;Jack Wisdom

  • From PLANNER to CONNIVER: a genetic approach

    Gerald Jay Sussman;Drew Vincent McDermott

  • Intelligence in scientific computing

    Harold Abelson;Michael Eisenberg;Matthew Halfant;Jacob Katzenelson

  • Propagation of constraints applied to circuit synthesis

    Johan De Kleer;Gerald Jay Sussman

  • Cellular computation and communications using engineered genetic regulatory networks

    Ron Weiss;Thomas F. Knight;Gerald Jay Sussman;Harold Abelson

  • Criticality and parallelism in combinatorial optimization

    Athanassios G. Siapas;Gerald Jay Sussman

  • Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age

    Gerald Sussman

  • The Outer Solar System for 210 Million Years

    James H. Applegate;Michael R. Douglas;Yekta Gursel;Gerald J Sussman

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy L. Steele
Guy L. Steele Oracle (United States)
Jacob Beal
Jacob Beal Raytheon (United States)
Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal Princeton University
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee University of Oxford
Mitchell Wand
Mitchell Wand Northeastern University
Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman Indiana University
Johan de Kleer
Johan de Kleer Palo Alto Research Center
James A. Hendler
James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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