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Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
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#2Not exactly CS, but the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is one of my favourites.
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#3Growing a Language
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#4"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" - Claude E. Shannon
http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...
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#5"Reflections on Trusting Trust" - Ken Thompson
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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#6Automated Theorem Proving, David Plaisted
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#7Not a paper, and not strictly CS, but Mythical Man-Month by Brooks. It solidified the connection in my mind between systems engineering and software engineering. Other readings since then have extended and changed this understanding, but this is where my approach to software development started to mature.
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#8New Directions in Cryptography - Diffie + Hellman
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#9Not CS, but control theory: "Guaranteed Margins for LQG Regulators" by John C. Doyle. The abstract is just three words: "There are none."
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.362...
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#10Back To The Future (Squeak). http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html