Books to read this year..

I am looking forward for a great year ahead..
A year that would catapult me to great heights..
I am in the process of making a roadmap [both personal and professional] for the coming year.

Reading books (I am targeting 6-8 books this year) is a major item in the list.
The topics I am lookin at are
1] Innovation
2] *[Data Mining/Knowledge discovery/Collobarative filtering] **NLP& Aboutness
I feel that * and ** would be a good combination so that the text information can be represented in a structure understandable by the * algorithms

text --NLP*--> [ structured and representation] --User Data, CF,DM algos**----> good recommendations


3] Program Design : Algorithms , Design Patterns
4] Entrepreneurship [web based]


Here are some of the books that I came across in our library:
I am looking at amazon.com for the book reviews. I would writing my notes after each book.
Hope I come up with the final list by saturday..

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INNOVATION:

Innovation on Demand: new product development using TRIZ Fey, Victor.
Rivin, Eugene I. [I feel that this book would be better. as it is written by mech engg profs maybe I can relate to the concepts better]
658.57522 FEY P05
2005

40 Principles : triz keys to technical innovation Altshuller, Genrich [This is book by the formulator of TRIZ]
620.0028
2001

Notes: TRIZ looks like a good concept.
>> TRIZ (some russian word):
TRIZ also evolved by transferring strong principles from one field to another.
TRIZ is also used in DFSS (for solving new problems using 6 sigma methodology)

This image compares TRIZ with other problem solving techniques

Biomimicry : innovation inspired by nature Benyus, Janine M.
600 BEN N97 [Looks like some stuff that they show in natgeo/discovery]
1997

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DATA MINING

The elements of statistical learning : data mining, inference, and prediction Hastie, T.
Tibshirani, Robert.
Friedman, Jerome.
006.31 Hastie, 2001
2001


Data mining : practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations Witten, I. H.
Frank, Eibe. [This is a must for any one planning to learn/apply data mining. Associated with WEKA]
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html
006.3 Witten, 2000
2000


Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining Fayyad, Usama M.
006.33 Advanc, 1996
1996 [This one looks like a good book]

Came across this nice pdf by usma fayyad and co
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/emner/it3704/lectures/papers/aimag-kdd-overview-1996-Fayyad.pdf

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ALGORITHMS

Learning to classify text using support vector machines: methods, theory and algorithms Joachims, Thorsten
005
2002
Algorithms in c,part1-4 : fundamentals data structures sorting searching Robert Sedgewick
005.133
2001
Multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms Deb, Kalyanmoy.
519.3 Deb, 2001
2001

Machine learning Mitchell, Tom M.
006.31
1997
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NATURAL LAnguage processing

Foundation of Statistical Natural Language Processing Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze
410.285
2002 [This one looks like a good one]
The companion site for this book : http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/

Moreover this book is being used in the following Universities:

UPenn CIS530, UPenn CIS639, Berkeley SIMS 296a-4, Johns Hopkins: current (Eisner) and previous [lots of great slides by Jan Hajic!], Brown CS241, CMU 11-682, CMU 11-761, Stanford CS224N, Oregon Graduate Institute CSE580, Ohio State, U Chicago, Purdue [lots of slides], Tufts, Minnesota 1, Minnesota 2, SUNY Albany, San Diego SU, Mississippi State, UCLA.

Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing,Computational linguistics, and Speech Recognition Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin
410.28 DAN
2000
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Books That I zeroed in on:
First Half:
4. Artificial Intelligence [Genetic Algorithms, ANN and optimisation methods]

Second Half:
1. Innovation on Demand: new product development using TRIZ Fey, Victor.Rivin, Eugene I.
2. Data mining : practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations Witten, I. H.Frank, Eibe.
3. Foundation of Statistical Natural Language Processing Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze
5. [Design Patterns]
6. [Web entrepreneurship]

[update Jan 7]
I would be quite busy for the first half of this year.. GRE/EEDP.. hence, I would be stressing more on knowledge acquisition in the second half.