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• Modeling and Simulation in Python (version 3.4.3; Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, 2017), by Allen Downey (PDF with commentary at Green Tea Press)
• Simulation of Information and Decision Systems in the Firm (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Charles P. Bonini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2004), ed. by Jordan B. Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Richard A. Watson, and Takashi Ikegami (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Database Needs for Modeling and Simulation of Plasma Processing, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2000), ed. by Mark Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1998), ed. by Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, and Charles E. Taylor (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Workshop on Production and Uses of Simulated Lunar Materials (LPI technical report 91-01; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1991), ed. by David S. McKay and James D. Blacic (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Workshop on Production and Uses of Simulated Lunar Materials (LPI technical report 91-01; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1991), ed. by David S. McKay and James D. Blacic (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Workshop on Production and Uses of Simulated Lunar Materials (LPI technical report 91-01; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1991), ed. by David S. McKay and James D. Blacic (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Defense Acquisition: Pathways to Success, by National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design (page images with commentary at NAP)

• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Accelerando (2005), by Charles Stross (multiple formats with commentary at antipope.org)
• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
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• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
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• The Fourth "R", by George O. Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)

• What Was Artificial Intelligence? (with a new introduction; Bethlehem, PA: Mediastudies.press, 2022), by Sue Curry Jansen (multiple formats with commentary at mediastudies.press)
• This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2019), by Pamela McCorduck (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)

• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges (Cham: Springer, c2023), by Bernd Carsten Stahl, Doris Schroeder, and Rowena Rodrigues
  • multiple formats with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Modeling and Simulation in Python (version 3.4.3; Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, 2017), by Allen Downey (PDF with commentary at Green Tea Press)
• The Nature of Code (c2012), by Daniel Shiffman, ed. by Shannon Fry, illust. by Zannah Marsh (illustrated HTML with commentary at natureofcode.com)
• A Practical Manual on the Monte Carlo Method for Random Walk Problems (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1957), by E. D. Cashwell and C. J. Everett, contrib. by O. W. Rechard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Analog Simulation: Solution of Field Problems (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Walter J. Karplus (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Statistical Learning, With Applications in R (corrected first edition and second edition; 2017 and 2021), by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani (PDF with commentary at statlearning.com)
• Modeling with Data (Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009), by Ben Klemens (PDF with commentary at modelingwithdata.org)

• Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds (2008), by P.-A. Absil, R. Mahony, and R. Sepulchre (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• Iterative Methods for Optimization (Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, c1999), by C. T. Kelley (PDF at siam.org)
• Lecture Notes on Optimization (electronic edition of "Notes on Optimization", 1998), by Pravin Pratap Varaiya (PDF at Berkeley)
• The Design of Approximation Algorithms (electronic prepublication edition, c2011), by David P. Williamson and David Bernard Shmoys (PDF files with commentary at designofapproxalgs.com)
• Randomness and Optimal Estimation in Data Sampling (second edition, 2002), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Housila P. Singh, S. Saxena, Sarjinder Singh, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)

• Discrete Choice Methods With Simulation (2003), by Kenneth Train (PDF files at Berkeley)

• Discrete Choice Methods With Simulation (2003), by Kenneth Train (PDF files at Berkeley)

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