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Great Computer Science Papers?

Posted by simoniker on from the greatest-cs-hits dept.

slevin writes "Recently I listened to a talk by Alan Kay who mentioned that many 'new' software ideas had already been discovered decades earlier by computer scientists - but 'nobody reads these great papers anymore.' Over the years I have had the opportunity to read some really great and thought-provoking academic papers in Computer Science and would like to read more, but there are just too many to sort through. I'm wondering what great or seminal papers others have encountered. Since Google has no answers, perhaps we can come up with a list for the rest of the world?"

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  3. Why should I? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Computer "science" is still a monopoly "science". I dare say that 99.9% of all computer "science" books are and will be a waste of paper as soon as computer "science" stops being a monopoly "science".

    The only books left will be about programing in C (Kernel, Modules, porting from other (closed source) languages to C) and how to use the Unix (Linux) console for more efficiency (see Cygwin for Windows or the new Longhorn "console").

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  4. I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why it is still called "Science"? Everyone uses computers today and there is nothing really left for scientific researches. Maybe a good book about eletronics is what fits "computer science" best. I don't think that reading about the latest fancy M$ products is a science.