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Great Computer Science Papers?
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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There be plenty of metaphors and analogies HEAR and here + search engine on member 46..
Don't forget the Polish, who's pre-war work on the Enigma machine, and their passing on of their machines to the British and French in the 1939 Warsaw meeting made the wartime breaking possible. Their contribution is almost ignored in history, but it's perhaps even more essential than the work in Britian.