Schedule
Here is the meeting schedule for the Making Minds Reading Group (MMRG).
For more details regarding nominating and voting for books to read for the next meeting, look for #mmrg in the Amii Slack.
| Date |
Time and Place |
Book |
Link(s) |
Friday
April 25, 2025 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
|
Friday
March 28, 2025 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos |
Goodreads
|
Friday
January 31, 2025 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
What Is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger |
Goodreads
|
Friday
November 29, 2024 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Computer and the Brain
John von Neumann |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 25, 2024 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
How Life Works: "Agency" chapter
Philip Ball |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 27, 2024 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins |
Goodreads
|
Friday
August 30, 2024 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky |
Goodreads
|
Friday
July 26, 2024 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 28, 2024 |
3:30pm MDT
UofA Quad |
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov |
Goodreads
|
Friday
May 31, 2024 |
11am MDT
Meet |
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves.
Eric R. Kandel |
Goodreads
|
Monday
April 29, 2024 |
11am MDT
Meet |
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Fei Fei Li |
Goodreads
|
Friday
March 22, 2024 |
4pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
[Encore] A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Solomon Bennett |
Goodreads
|
Friday
March 1, 2024 |
4pm MST
CSC 2-49 |
A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Solomon Bennett |
Goodreads
|
Friday
January 26, 2024 |
4pm MST
CSC 2-49 |
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph E. LeDoux |
Goodreads
|
Friday
December 1, 2023 |
4pm MST
CSC 2-49 |
The Mind is Flat
Nick Chater |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 27, 2023 |
4pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
Advice to a Young Scientist
Peter Medawar |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 29, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 1, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are
Frans De Waal |
Goodreads
|
Friday
July 28, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 30, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace
of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey West |
Goodreads
|
Friday
May 26, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam |
Goodreads
|
Friday
April 28, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
All Systems Red
Martha Wells |
Goodreads
|
Friday
March 31, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Meghan O'Gieblyn |
Goodreads
|
Friday
February 24, 2023 |
3:30pm MST
Amii coworking space |
Math Without Numbers
Milo Beckman |
Goodreads
|
Thursday
January 26, 2023 |
3:30pm MST
Amii coworking space |
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner |
Goodreads
|
Friday
December 30, 2022 |
4pm MST
Meet |
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl |
Goodreads
|
Friday
November 25, 2022 |
4pm MST
Heritage Lounge + Meet |
The Philosophical Baby
Alison Gopnik |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 28, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Heritage Lounge + Meet |
The Character of Physical Law
Richard Feynman |
Goodreads
|
Thursday
September 29, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
Free-reading month
|
Friday
August 26, 2022 |
2pm MDT
Meet |
Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang |
Goodreads
|
Friday
July 29, 2022 |
2pm MDT
Meet |
Algorithms Are Not Enough: Creating General Artificial Intelligence
Herbert L. Roitblat |
Goodreads
|
Thursday
June 30, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 3, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb |
Goodreads
|
Friday
April 29, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert Simon |
Goodreads
|
Friday
March 25, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman |
Goodreads
|
Friday
February 25, 2022 |
4pm MST
Meet |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn |
Goodreads
|
Friday
January 28, 2022 |
4pm MST
Meet |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn |
Goodreads
|
Friday
December 31, 2021 |
4pm MST
Meet |
Free reading month!
|
Friday
November 26, 2021 |
4pm MST
Meet |
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
Samuel Gershman |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 29, 2021 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 24, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Free reading month!
|
Friday
August 27, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Inter-disciplinary basics
Various authors |
Some resources
|
Friday
July 30, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
The Other Brain
Douglas Fields |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 25, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman |
Goodreads
|
Monday
May 31, 2021 |
10am MDT
Meet |
My Octopus Teacher
Documentary |
Netflix
|
Friday
April 30, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins |
Goodreads
Amazon
|
Friday
March 26, 2021 |
3:30pm MDT
Meet |
Free reading month!
|
Friday
February 26, 2021 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
The Alignment Problem, The Race after Technology
Brian Christian, Ruha Benjamin |
Wednesday
January 20, 2021 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Peter Godfrey-Smith |
Wednesday
December 30, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
The New Science of the Mind
Mark Rowlands |
Friday
November 27, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
How Emotions are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett |
Friday
October 30, 2020 |
3pm MDT
Meet |
Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Peter M. Hoffmann |
Friday
October 2, 2020 |
3:30pm MDT
Meet |
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph LeDoux |
Friday
August 28, 2020 |
3pm MDT
Meet |
Babies
Netflix docu-series |
Netflix
|
Friday
July 31, 2020 |
11am MDT
Meet |
The Mind: Explained
Netflix docu-series |
Netflix
|
Friday
June 26, 2020 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Animal Intelligence' episode, 'Parroting Probabilities' podcast
Netflix, Amalia Bastos |
Netflix
Spotify
|
Friday
May 22, 2020 |
3:30pm MDT
Meet |
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Paul Bloom |
Friday
February 28, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Andy Clark |
Friday
January 24, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth |
Friday
December 6, 2019 |
3pm MST
Amii Office |
The Puzzle Instinct
Marcel Danesi |
Friday
November 1, 2019 |
3pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Invisible Women
Carloine Criado-Pérez |
Friday
September 27, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 3-33 |
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins |
Friday
August 30, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang |
Friday
August 9, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii Office |
Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
Barbara Tversky |
Thursday
June 27, 2019 |
2:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Stories of Ibis
Ted Chiang |
Thursday
May 30, 2019 |
2:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
Action in Perception
Alva Noe |
Friday
April 26, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
Made-Up Minds
Gary Drescher |
Friday
March 29, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
Evolution for Everyone
David Sloan Wilson |
Friday
February 22, 2019 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
Anthony Chemero |
Friday
January 18, 2019 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano |
Friday
December 14, 2018 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie |
Friday
November 16, 2018 |
3:30pm MST
ATH 3-32 |
The Scientist in the Crib, What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Alison Gopnik |
Friday
October 19, 2018 |
3:30pm MDT
ATH 3-32 |
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Daniel Chamovitz |
Friday
September 14, 2018 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil |
MMRG was started in 2008 by Elliot Ludvig and others. The current organizer is Vlad Tkachuk, who took over from Abhishek Naik in Aug 2024, who in turn took over from Matt Schlegel in March 2021. The pre-2018 reading list can be found here.