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This is a list of important publications in computer science, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
- Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
- Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic
Theoretical computer science
Topics covered: theoretical computer science, including computability theory, computational complexity theory, algorithms, algorithmic information theory, information theory and formal verification.
Concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing
Topics covered: concurrent computing, parallel computing, and distributed computing.
Networks and security
Topics covered: cryptography and computer security, computer networks and the Internet.
Computational linguistics
Realization of Natural-Language Interfaces Using Lazy Functional Programming
- Richard A. Frost
- ACM Computing Surveys Volume 38 Issue 4 Article 11, December 2006
- Online copy
Description: This survey documents relatively less researched importance of lazy functional programming languages (i.e. Haskell) to construct Natural Language Processors and to accommodated many linguistic theories.
Operating systems
An experimental timesharing system.
- Fernando J. Corbató, M. Merwin-Daggett, and R.C. Daley
- Proceedings of the AFIPS FJCC, pages 335–344, 1962.
- Online copy (HTML)
Description: This paper discuss time-sharing as a method of sharing computer resource. This idea changed the interaction with computer systems.
The Working Set Model for Program Behavior
- Peter J. Denning
- Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1968, pp 323–333
- Online version(PDF)
Description: The beginning of cache. For more information see SIGOPS Hall of Fame.
Virtual Memory, Processes, and Sharing in MULTICS
- Robert C. Daley, Jack B. Dennis
- Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1968, pp. 306–312.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: The classic paper on the most ambitious operating system in the early history of computing. Difficult reading, but it describes the implications of trying to build a system that takes information sharing to its logical extreme. Most operating systems since Multics have incorporated a subset of its facilities.
A note on the confinement problem
- Butler W. Lampson
- Communications of the ACM, 16(10):613-615, October 1973.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: This paper addresses issues in constraining the flow of information from untrusted programs. It discusses covert channels, but more importantly it addresses the difficulty in obtaining full confinement without making the program itself effectively unusable. The ideas are important when trying to understand containment of malicious code, as well as aspects of trusted computing.
The UNIX Time-Sharing System
- Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson
- Communications of the ACM 7, 7, July 1974.
- Online copy (few formats)
Description: The Unix operating system and its principles were described in this paper. The main importance is not of the paper but of the operating system, which had tremendous effect on operating system and computer technology.
Weighted voting for replicated data
- David K. Gifford
- Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pages 150-159, December 1979. Pacific Grove, California
- Online copy (few formats)
Description: This paper describes the consistency mechanism known as quorum consensus. It is a good example of algorithms that provide a continuous set of options between two alternatives (in this case, between the read-one write-all, and the write-one read-all consistency methods). There have been many variations and improvements by researchers in the years that followed, and it is one of the consistency algorithms that should be understood by all. The options available by choosing different size quorums provide a useful structure for discussing of the core requirements for consistency in distributed systems.
Experiences with Processes and Monitors in Mesa
- Butler W. Lampson, David D. Redell
- Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, No. 2, February, 1980, pp. 105–117.
- Online copy (PDF)
Description: This is the classic paper on synchronization techniques, including both alternate approaches and pitfalls.
Scheduling Techniques for Concurrent Systems
- J. K. Ousterhout
- Proceedings of Third International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1982, 22—30.
Description: Algorithms for coscheduling of related processes were given
A Fast File System for UNIX
- Marshall Kirk Mckusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry
- IACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 3, August 1984, pp. 181–197.
- Online copy (PDF)
Description: The file system of UNIX. One of the first papers discussing how to manage disk storage for high-performance file systems. Most file-system research since this paper has been influenced by it, and most high-performance file systems of the last 20 years incorporate techniques from this paper.
The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
- Mendel Rosenblum,J. K. Ousterhout
- ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1 (February 1992), pp. 26–52.
- Online version
Description: Log-structured file system.
Microkernel operating system architecture and Mach
- David L. Black, David B. Golub, Daniel P. Julin, Richard F. Rashid, Richard P. Draves, Randall W. Dean, Alessandro Forin, Joseph Barrera, Hideyuki Tokuda, Gerald Malan, David Bohman
- Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Microkernels and Other Kernel Architectures, pages 11–30, April 1992.
Description: This is a good paper discussing one particular microkernel architecture and contrasting it with monolithic kernel design. Mach underlies Mac OS X, and its layered architecture had a significant impact on the design of the Windows NT kernel and modern microkernels like L4. In addition, its memory-mapped files feature was added to many monolithic kernels.
An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX
- Margo Seltzer, Keith Bostic, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Carl Staelin
- Proceedings of the Winter 1993 USENIX Conference, San Diego, CA, January 1993, 307-326
- Online version
Description: The paper was the first production-quality implementation of that idea which spawned much additional discussion of the viability and short-comings of log-structured filesystems. While "The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System" was certainly the first, this one was important in bringing the research idea to a usable system.
Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update problem in File Systems
- G. Ganger, M. McKusick, C. Soules, Y. Patt
- ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 18, 2. pp 127–153, May 2000
- Online version
Description: A new way of maintaining filesystem consistency.
Databases
- E. F. Codd
- Communications of the ACM, 13(6):377–387, June 1970
Description: This paper introduced the relational model for databases. This model became the number one model.
Binary B-Trees for Virtual Memory
- Rudolf Bayer
- ACM-SIGFIDET Workshop 1971, San Diego, California, Session 5B, p. 219-235.
Description: This paper introduced the B-Trees data structure. This model became the number one model.
Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages
- E. F. Codd
- In: R. Rustin (ed.): Database Systems: 65-98, Prentice Hall and IBM Research Report RJ 987, San Jose, California : (1972)
- Online version (PDF)
Description: Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages
The Entity Relationship Model – Towards a Unified View of Data
Description: This paper introduced the Entity-relationship diagram(ERD) method of database design.
SEQUEL: A structured English query language
- Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
- International Conference on Management of Data, Proceedings of the 1974 ACM SIGFIDET (now SIGMOD) workshop on Data description, access and control, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 249–264
Description: This paper introduced the SQL language.
The notions of consistency and predicate locks in a database system
- K.P. Eswaran, J. Gray, R.A. Lorie, I.L. Traiger
- Communications of the ACM 19, 1976, 624—633
Description: This paper defined the concepts of transaction, consistency and schedule.It also argued that a transaction needs to lock a logical rather than a physical subset of the database.
Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases
- Rakesh Agrawal, Tomasz Imielinski, Arun Swami
- Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, pages 207–216, Washington, D.C., May 1993
- Online copy (HTML)
Description: Association rules, a very common method for data mining.
Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery
- Theo Härder, Andreas Reuter
- ACM Computing Surveys 15(4), May 1983
Description: Introduced the ACID paradigm for transactions.
Information retrieval
A Vector Space Model for Automatic Indexing
- Gerard Salton, A. Wong, C. S. Yang
- Commun. ACM 18(11): 613-620 (1975)
Description: Presented the vector space model.
Extended Boolean Information Retrieval
- Gerard Salton, Edward A. Fox, Harry Wu
- Commun. ACM 26(11): 1022-1036 (1983)
Description: Presented the inverted index
Artificial intelligence
Computing machinery and intelligence
- Alan Turing
- Mind, 59:433–460, 1950.
- Online copy
Description: This paper discusses whether machine can think and suggested the Turing test as a method for checking it.
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Description: This summer research proposal inaugurated and defined the field. It contains the first use of the term artificial intelligence and this succinct description of the philosophical foundation of the field: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." (See philosophy of AI) The proposal invited researchers to the Dartmouth conference, which is widely considered the "birth of AI". (See history of AI.)
Fuzzy sets
- Lotfi Zadeh
- Information and Control, Vol. 8, pp. 338–353. (1965).
- Online copy
Description: The seminal paper published in 1965 provides details on the mathematics of fuzzy set theory.
Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference
- Judea Pearl
- ISBN 1-55860-479-0 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub, 1988
Description: This book introduced Bayesian methods to AI.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
- Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig
- Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1995, ISBN 0-13-080302-2
- Textbook's website
Description: The standard textbook in Artificial Intelligence. The book web site lists over 1100 colleges and universities in 102 countries using it.
Machine learning
An Inductive Inference Machine
- Ray Solomonoff
- IRE Convention Record, Section on Information Theory, Part 2, pp. 56–62, 1957
- (A longer version of this, a privately circulated report, 1956, is online).
Description: The first paper written on machine learning. Emphasized the importance of training sequences, and the use of parts of previous solutions to problems in constructing trial solutions to new problems.
Language identification in the limit
- E. M. Gold
- Information and Control, 10:447–474, 1967
- Online version(HTML)
Description: This paper created Algorithmic learning theory.
On the uniform convergence of relative frequencies of events to their probabilities
- V. Vapnik, A. Chervonenkis
- Theory of Probability and its Applications, 16(2):264—280, 1971
Description: Computational learning theory, VC theory, statistical uniform convergence and the VC dimension.
A theory of the learnable
- Leslie Valiant
- Communications of the ACM, 27(11):1134–1142 (1984)
Description: The Probably approximately correct learning (PAC learning) framework.
Learning representations by back-propagating errors
- David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Ronald J. Williams
- Nature, 323, 533—536, 1986
Description: Development of Backpropagation algorithm for artificial neural networks. Note that the algorithm was first described by Paul Werbos in 1974.
Induction of Decision Trees
- J.R. Quinlan
- Machine Learning, 1. 81—106, 1986.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: Decision Trees are a common learning algorithm and a decision representation tool. Development of decision trees was done by many researchers in many areas, even before this paper. Though this paper is one of the most influential in the field.
Learning Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes Abound: A New Linear-threshold Algorithm
- Nick Littlestone
- Machine Learning 2: 285-318, 1988
- Online version(PDF)
Description: One of the papers that started the field of on-line learning. In this learning setting, a learner receives a sequence of examples, making predictions after each one, and receiving feedback after each prediction. Research in this area is remarkable because (1) the algorithms and proofs tend to be very simple and beautiful, and (2) the model makes no statistical assumptions about the data. In other words, the data need not be random (as in nearly all other learning models), but can be chosen arbitrarily by "nature" or even an adversary. Specifically, this paper introduced the winnow algorithm.
Learning to predict by the method of temporal differences
- Richard S. Sutton
- Machine Learning 3(1): 9-44
- Online copy
Description: The temporal differences method for reinforcement learning.
Learnability and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension
- A. Blumer
- A. Ehrenfeucht
- D. Haussler
- M. K. Warmuth
- Journal of the ACM, 36(4):929–965, 1989.
Description: The complete characterization of PAC learnability using the VC dimension.
Cryptographic limitations on learning boolean formulae and finite automata
- M. Kearns
- L. G. Valiant
- In Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pages 433–444, New York. ACM.
- Online version(HTML)
Description: Proving negative results for PAC learning.
The strength of weak learnability
- Robert E. Schapire
- Machine Learning, 5(2):197–227, 1990.
- Online version(HTML)
Description: Proving that weak and strong learnability are equivalent in the noise free PAC framework. The proof was done by introducing the boosting method.
Learning in the presence of malicious errors
- Michael Kearns
- Ming Li
- Journal on Computing, 22(4):807–837, August 1993.
- Online version(HTML)
Description: Proving possibility and impossibility result in the malicious errors framework.
A training algorithm for optimum margin classifiers
- Bernhard E. Boser
- Isabelle M. Guyon
- Vladimir N. Vapnik
- Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory 5 144-152, Pittsburgh (1992).
- Online version(HTML)
Description: This paper presented support vector machines, a practical and popular machine learning algorithm. Support vector machines utilize the kernel trick, a generally used method.
Knowledge-based analysis of microarray gene expression data by using support vector machines
- MP Brown
- WN Grundy
- D Lin
- Nello Cristianini
- CW Sugnet
- TS Furey
- M Ares Jr,
- David Haussler
- PNAS, 2000 Jan 4;97(1):262-7 (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/1/262)
Description: The first application of supervised learning to gene expression data, in particular Support Vector Machines. The method is now standard, and the paper one of the most cited in the area.
Computer vision
The Phase Correlation Image Alignment Method
- C.D. Kuglin and D.C. Hines
- IEEE 1975 Conference on Cybernetics and Society, 1975, New York, pp. 163–165, September
Description: A correlation method based upon the inverse Fourier transform
Determining Optical Flow
- B.K.P. Horn and B.G. Schunck
- Artificial Intelligence, Volume 17, 185–203, 1981
Description: A method for estimating the image motion of world points between 2 frames of a video sequence.
An Iterative Image Registration Technique with an Application to Stereo Vision
- Lucas, B.D. and Kanade, T.
- Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 674–679,Vancouver, Canada,1981
- Online version
Description: This paper provides efficient technique for image registration
The Laplacian Pyramid as a compact image code
- Peter J. Burt and Edward H. Adelson
- IEEE Transactions on Communications, volume = "COM-31,4", pp. 532–540, 1983.
- Online version
Description: A technique for image encoding using local operators of many scales.
Snakes: Active contour models
- Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos
- International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(4):321–331, 1988. (Marr Prize Special Issue)
- Online version
Description: An interactive variational technique for image segmentation and visual tracking.
Condensation – conditional density propagation for visual tracking
- M. Isard and A. Blake
- International Journal of Computer Vision, 29(1):5–28, 1998.
- Online version
Description: A technique for visual tracking
Object recognition from local scale-invariant features
- David Lowe
- International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 1150–1157, 1999
- [1]
Description: A technique (Scale-invariant feature transform) for robust feature description
Compilers
On the translation of languages from left to right
- Donald Knuth
- Information and Control 8 (1965), 607-639.
Description: Bottom up parsing for deterministic context-free languages from which later the LALR approach of Yacc developed.
Semantics of Context-Free Languages.
- Donald Knuth
- Math. Systems Theory 2:2 (1968), 127-145.
Description: About grammar attribution, the base for yacc's s-attributed and zyacc's LR-attributed approach.
A program data flow analysis procedure
- F.E. Allen, J. Cocke
- Commun. ACM, 19, 137—147.
Description: From the abstract: "The global data relationships in a program can be exposed and codified by the static analysis methods described in this paper. A procedure is given which determines all the definitions which can possibly reach each node of the control flow graph of the program and all the definitions that are live on each edge of the graph."
A Unified Approach to Global Program Optimization
- Gary Kildall
- Proceedings of ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN 1973 Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
Description: Formalized the concept of data-flow analysis as fixpoint computation over lattices, and showed that most static analyses used for program optimization can be uniformly expressed within this framework.
YACC: Yet another compiler-compiler
- Stephen C. Johnson
- Unix Programmer's Manual Vol 2b, 1979
- Online copy (HTML)
Description: Yacc is a tool that made compiler writing much easier.
gprof: A Call Graph Execution Profiler
- Susan L. Graham, Peter B. Kessler, Marshall Kirk McKusick
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1982 Symposium on Compiler Construction, SIGPLAN Notices 17, 6, Boston, MA. June 1982.
- Online copy
Description: The gprof profiler
Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools
Description: This book became a classic in compiler writing. It is also known as the Dragon book, after the (red) dragon that appears on its cover.
Software engineering
Software engineering: Report of a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee
- Peter Naur, Brian Randell (eds.)
- Garmisch, Germany, 7–11 October 1968, Brussels, Scientific Affairs Division, NATO (1969) 231pp.
- Online copy (PDF)
Description: Conference of leading figures in software field circa 1968
The paper defined the field of Software engineering
Go To Statement Considered Harmful
- Dijkstra, E. W.
- Communications of the ACM, 11(3):147–148, March 1968
- Online copy (PDF)
Description: Don't use goto – the beginning of structured programming.
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
- David Parnas
- Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 12:1053–1058, December 1972.
- Online copy (HTML)
Description: The importance of modularization and information hiding. Note that information hiding was first presented in a different paper of the same author - "Information Distributions Aspects of Design Methodology", Proceedings of IFIP Congress '71, 1971, Booklet TA-3, pp. 26–30
Hierarchical Program Structures
- Ole-Johan Dahl, C. A. R. Hoare
- in Dahl, Dijkstra and Hoare, Structured Programming, Academic Press, London and New York, pp. 175–220, 1972.
Description: The beginning of Object-oriented programming. This paper argued that programs should be decomposed to independent components with small and simple interfaces. They also argued that objects should have both data and related methods.
A technique for software module specification with examples
- David Parnas
- Comm. ACM 15, 5 [(May, 1972), 330-336.
- Online copy (PDF)
Description: software specification.
Structured Design
- Wayne Stevens, Glenford Myers, and Larry Constantine
- IBM Systems Journal, 13 (2), 115-139, 1974.
- On-line copy (PDF)
Description: Seminal paper on Structured Design, data flow diagram, coupling, and cohesion.
The Emperor's Old Clothes
- C.A.R. Hoare
- Communications of the ACM, Vol. 24, No. 2, February 1981, pp. 75–83.
- Archived copy (PDF)
Description: A lovely story of how large software projects can go right, and then wrong, and then right again, told with humility and humor. Illustrates the "second-system effect" and the importance of simplicity.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
- Brooks, Jr., F. P.
- Addison Wesley Professional. 2nd edition, 1995.
Description: Throwing more people at the task will not speed its completion...
No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
- Brooks, Jr., F. P.
- Computer, 20(4):10–19, April 1987
- Online copy (HTML)
Description: We will keep having problems with software...
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Raymond, E.S.
- First Monday, 3, 3 (March 1998)
- Online copy (HTML)
Description: Open source methodology.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software
- E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, J. Vlissides
- Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1995.
Description: This book was the first to define and list design patterns in computer science.
Statecharts: A Visual Formalism For Complex Systems
- David Harel
- D. Harel. Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems. Science of Computer Programming, 8:231—274, 1987
- Online version
Description: Statecharts are a visual modeling method. They are an extension of state machine that might be exponentially more efficient. Therefore, statcharts enable formal modeling of applications that were too complex before. Statecharts are part of the UML diagrams.
Technology of Automata-based programming
- Anatoly Shalyto
- Shalyto A. Logic Control and "Reactive" Systems: Algorithmization and Programming, Automation and Remote Control, 2001, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 1–29.
- Shalyto A. Technology of Automata-Based Programming. CodeProject. 2004.
- Gurov V., Mazin M., Narvsky A., Shalyto A. Tools for Support of Automata-Based Programming, Programming and Computer Software, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 343–355.
- Kuzmin E.V., Sokolov V.A. Modeling, Specification and Verification of Automaton Programs, Programming and Computer Software, 2008, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 27-43.
Description: Technology of Automata-based programming is a programming techology based on a principle of using finite state machine as a description of behavior and isomorphical transformation from state machine to code.
Programming languages
The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System
- John Backus et al.
- Proceedings of the WJCC (Western Joint Computer Conference), Los Angeles, California, February, 1957.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: This paper describes the design and implementation of the first FORTRAN compiler by the IBM team. Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, part I
- John McCarthy.
- Communications of the ACM, 3(4):184-195, April 1960.
- Several online versions
Description: This paper introduced LISP, the first functional programming language, which was used heavily in many areas of computer science, especially in AI. LISP also has powerful features for manipulating LISP programs within the language.
ALGOL 60
- Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60 by Peter Naur, et al. – The very influential ALGOL definition; with the first formally defined syntax.
- B. Randell and L.J. Russell, ALGOL 60 Implementation: The Translation and Use of ALGOL 60 Programs on a Computer. Academic Press, 1964. The design of the Whetstone Compiler. One of the early published descriptions of implementing a compiler. See the related papers: Whetstone Algol Revisited, and The Whetstone KDF9 Algol Translator by B. Randell
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Algol 60 translation: an Algol 60 translator for the x1 and making a translator for Algol 60, report MR 35/61. Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1961. [2]
Description: Algol 60 introduced block structure.
The next 700 programming languages
- Peter Landin
- Communications of the ACM 9(3):157–65, March 1966 [3]
Description: This seminal paper proposed an ideal language ISWIM, which without being ever implemented influenced the whole later development.
Lambda Papers
- Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr.
- AI Memos, 1975–1980
Description: This series of papers and reports first defined the influential Scheme programming language and questioned the prevailing practices in programming language design, employing lambda calculus extensively to model programming language concepts and guide efficient implementation without sacrificing expressive power.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
- MIT Press, 1984, 1996
Description: This textbook explains core computer programming concepts, and is widely considered a classic text in computer science.
The C Programming Language
- Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
- Prentice Hall, 1978, 1988
Description: Co-authored by the man who designed the C programming language, the first edition of this book served for many years as the language's de facto standard. As such, the book is regarded by many to be the authoritative reference on C.
The Java (programming language)
- Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes, The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-34980-6
Computer architecture
Colossus computer
- T. H. Flowers
- Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 5 (No. 3), 1983, pp. 239–252.
- The Design of Colossus
Description: The Colossus machines were early computing devices used by British codebreakers to read encrypted German messages during World War II. Colossus was an early binary electronic digital computer. The design of Colossus was later described in the referenced paper.
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
- John von Neumann
- June 30, 1945, the ENIAC project.
- First Draft of a report on the EDVAC (PDF)
Description: It contains the first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept, which has come to be known as the von Neumann architecture.
Architecture of the IBM System/360
- Gene Amdahl, Fred Brooks, G. A. Blaauw
- IBM Journal of Research and Development, 1964.
- Architecture of the IBM System/360
Description: The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM on April 7, 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation.
The case for the reduced instruction set computer
- DA Patterson,DR Ditzel
- Computer ArchitectureNews, vol. 8, no. 6, October 1980, pp 25–33.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: The reduced instruction set computer( RISC) CPU design philosophy. The RISC is a CPU design philosophy that favors a reduced instruction set as well as a simpler set of instructions.
Comments on "the Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer"
- DW Clark, WD Strecker
- Computer Architecture News, 1980.
- Online version(PDF)
Description:
The CRAY-1 Computer System
- DW Clark, WD Strecker
- Communications of the ACM, January 1978, volume 21, number 1, pages 63–72.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed by a team including Seymour Cray for Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history.
Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving Large Scale Computing Capabilities
- Gene Amdahl
- AFIPS 1967 Spring Joint Computer Conference, Atlantic City, N.J.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: The Amdahl's Law.
A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
- David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson, Randy H. Katz
- In International Conference on Management of Data, pages 109—116, 1988.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: This paper discusses the concept of RAID disks, outlines the different levels of RAID, and the benefits of each level. It is a good paper for discussing issues of reliability and fault tolerance of computer systems, and the cost of providing such fault-tolerance.
Computer graphics
The Rendering Equation
- J. Kajiya
- SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques pages 143—150 [4]
Elastically deformable models
- D. Terzopoulos, J. Platt, A. Barr, K. Fleischer
- Computer Graphics, 21(4), 1987, 205-214, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'87 Conference, Anaheim, CA, July, 1987.
- Online version(PDF)
Description: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cited this paper as a "milestone in computer graphics".
History of computation
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann
Description: Perhaps the first book on the history of computation.
A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century
edited by:
- Nicholas Metropolis
- J. Howlett
- Gian-Carlo Rota
- Academic Press, 1980, ISBN 0-12-491650-3
Description: Several chapters by pioneers of computing.
Computer science humor
The Complexity of Songs
- Donald Knuth
- Knuth, D. The Complexity of Songs, SIGACT News, Summer 1977, 17-24.
- Knuth, D. The Complexity of Songs, Communications of the ACM, 1984, 27 (4) pp. 345—348.
- The Complexity of Songs, Knuth, Donald E. (1984). (pdf)
Description: The article capitalizes on the tendency of popular songs to evolve from long and content-rich ballads to highly repetitive "content-free" texts.
On Folk Theorems
- David Harel, "On Folk Theorems", Comm. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 23 (1980), 379-389
- Online version(PDF)
Description: A paper that is both serious and funny about "the things we all know".
How to prove it
- Dana Angluin
- Sigact News, Winter-Spring 1983, Volume 15 #1
- Online version
Description: Angluin presents some common proof techniques that should become less common.
See also
- DBLP (Digital Bibliography & Library Project in computer science)
- List of publications in science
- List of open problems in computer science
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- Paris Kanellakis Award, a prize given to honor specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing.
Further reading
- Laplante, Phillip (ed). (1996) Great Papers in Computer Science. New York: IEEE Press. ISBN 031406365X.
- Randell, Brian (ed). (1982). The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers. 3rd ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0387113193.
- Turning Points in Computing: 1962-1999, Special Issue, IBM Systems Journal, 38 (2/3),1999.
- Yourdon, Edward (ed.) (1979) Classics in Software Engineering. New York: Yourdon Press. ISBN 0917072146
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- Lots of video lectures on Computer Science
- Most cited articles in Computer Science (Cite.Seer Database)
- 50 most influential papers ACM SIGPLAN papers published in PLDI from 1979 through 1999; organized into a special SIGPLAN proceedings.
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