Great Computer Science Papers?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday November 16, 2003 @12:40AM 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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As We May Think - Vannavar Bush by billimad · 2003-11-16 02:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

Oft cited classic paper As We May Think.
The Lambda Calculus by warrensomebody · 2003-11-17 06:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

No computer science education should be considered complete without reading Alonzo Church's paper from the 30s, "The Lambda Calculus". (BTW, Church was Turing's thesis advisor.)