Everything about General Automation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: General AutomationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Collaboration, not Confrontation: Understanding General Practitioners’ Attitudes Towards Natural Language and Text Automation in Clinical PracticeInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Enchanted TypewriterThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.Cited 5,057 times
5. Go sideways: InterdataA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: 8-bit computingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.

  Richard M. Shiffrin, Walter Schneider · 1977 · Psychological Review · 5,057 citations

• Computer automation of general-to-specific model selection procedures

  Hans-Martin Krolzig, David F. Hendry · 2001 · Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control · 222 citations

• A General Approach for the Automation of Hydraulic Excavator Arms Using Reinforcement Learning

  Pascal Egli, Marco Hutter · 2022 · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 100 citations

• Cognitive Automation—Survey of Novel Artificial General Intelligence Methods for the Automation of Human Technical Environments

  Dietmar Bruckner, Heimo Zeilinger, Dietmar Dietrich · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 40 citations

• The INCLUSIVE System: A General Framework for Adaptive Industrial Automation

  Valeria Villani, Lorenzo Sabattini, Paulina Baranska · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 29 citations

• Machine learning in general practice: scoping review of administrative task support and automation

  Natasha Lee Sørensen, Brian Bemman, Martin Bach Jensen · 2023 · BMC Primary Care · 28 citations

• General survey of design automation of digital computers

  M.A. Breuer · 1966 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 27 citations

• A General Real-Time Control Approach of Intrusion Response for Industrial Automation Systems

  Shuang Huang, Chunjie Zhou, Naixue Xiong · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems · 21 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Collaboration, not Confrontation: Understanding General Practitioners’ Attitudes Towards Natural Language and Text Automation in Clinical Practice

  David Fraile Navarro, A. Baki Kocaballi, Mark Dras · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction · 28 citations

• A Conceptual Framework for AI Enabled IT General Controls and SOX Audit Automation Processes

  Ijeoma Stephanie Mbonu, Chime Aliliele, Uzoamaka Iwuanyanwu · 2022 · Gyanshauryam International Scientific Refereed Research Journal · 22 citations

• Opportunities and accessibility challenges for open-source general-purpose home automation mobile applications for visually disabled users

  Gabriela A. A. de Oliveira, Otávio de Faria Oliveira, Stenio de Abreu · 2022 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 14 citations

• Behavioral Ontology Part 1: A General Theory of Declarative Automation

  Jorge L. Argibay · 2026 · The Scientific Review · 8 citations

• A general mobile manipulator automation framework for flexible tasks in controlled environments

  Can Pu, Chuanyu Yang, Jinnian Pu · 2023 · Advanced Engineering Informatics · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Enchanted TypewriterJohn Kendrick Bangs · 1899
• Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang · 2002
• The Tin MenMichael Frayn · 1965
• Rise of the RobotsMartin Ford · 1708
• Introduction to Industrial AutomationGeorge Nikolakopoulos, Stamatios Manesis · 2018
• Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computationJohn E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 1979
• Industrialized and automated building systemsAbraham Warszawski · 1999
• Think StatsAllen B. Downey · 2011

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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