Surprised the Bitcoin paper isn't on here.
It doesn't really add anything to computer science, but then again the Sergey-Brin paper probably doesn't match that rigidity either.
Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
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#12It would be interesting to see the opposite of this; which papers are really interesting and look useful, but did not end up having a significant impact?
I could mail you my dissertation if you're interested
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#13Love this, agree w/ all.
Probably just needs to be a bigger list.
Unix paper.
Hinton on deep learning (pick one).
Map Reduce + GFS from Google.
Paxos from dist systems.
PGP paper; RSA paper
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#14I´m pretty fond of ¨Ending the anomaly¨: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-h...
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#15Great list of papers. I've read five of of the seven papers on the list. The two I haven't read are Cerf and Kahn's, and Berner-Lee's. Turing's paper on computability was particularly hard to follow, for me, because he used these gothic-font upper-chase characters to name all sorts of objects, and all those characters looked kinda the same to me! I had to use auxiliary materials to be able to make my way through the…
If you can get .tex source files, ask GPT to rename the variables to something nicer, including more than one letter long names. Helps.
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#16If this is up your alley, Ideas That Created the Future[1] has like 40 more, decent introductions to their ideas, and provides a sort of thematic throughline from Aristotle to the modern computer science.
[1]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045308/ideas-that-created-th...
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#17Love this, agree w/ all. Probably just needs to be a bigger list. Unix paper. Hinton on deep learning (pick one). Map Reduce + GFS from Google. Paxos from dist systems. PGP paper; RSA paper
+1 on map reduce, thats a classic systems paper.
Surprised no one has mentioned The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. Data is more important than complex domain specific algorithms.
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#18Oh man, if you think Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication is his most foundational contribution to computer science, you haven't seen his master's thesis from a decade prior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...
He outlined how you could use switching elements in circuits (read: transistors) to define boolean logic.
(That's not to downplay the importance of, well, establishing the foundations of the entire field of information theory.)
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#19Please add Satoshi Nakamoto, for Bitcoin and the money revolution
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#20J.C.R. Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" from 1960.