Paper Reading 📄

I don’t read enough computing papers, technical memos or essays, something I want to improve on. The list below starts with ones that are older; influences on an earlier me that I should reread with the benefit of hindsight, or, ones that I think will be good and which I really should have read by now. It’s hard to keep up with the stream of new and recent publications, but I’d love to get recommendations on other more recent papers and essays (say in the last decade), that seem important or in some way foundational.

And so, some initial paper reading :

• Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence, Marvin Minsky

• Growing a Language, Guy Steele (video)

• The Power of Abstraction, Barbara Liskov (video)

• First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, John Von Neummann

• Architecture of the IBM System/360, Amdahl Brooks & Blaauw

• Design Principles Behind Smalltalk, Ingalis

• The Early History Of Smalltalk, Alan Kay

• Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big, Richard Gabriel

• Propositions as Types, Philip Wadler (video)

• Is Design Dead? Martin Fowler

• The Log, Jay Kreps

• Beating the Averages, Paul Graham

• The Declarative Imperative, Joe Hellerstein

• Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity, Scott Aaronson

• The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology, Leslie Lamport

• No Free Lunch Theorems for Optimization, Wolpert & Macready

• A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Nakamoto

• An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming, C.A.R. Hoare

• Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing

• Intelligence without representation, Rodney Brooks

• Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? John Backus

• As We May Think, Vannevar Bush

• The Google File System, Ghemawat, Gobioff & Leung

• Artificial Intelligence meets natural stupidity, Drew McDermott

• We Really Don't Know How To Compute!, Gerald Sussman (video) [1]

• The Art of the Propagator, Radul & Sussman

• A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets, Hinton, Osindero, Teh

• Deep learning, Bengio, Hinton & LeCun

• The Law of Leaky Abstractions, Joel Spolsky

• Fire and Motion, Joel Spolsky

• RFC 760, Internet Protocol, John Postel, ed.

• On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules, David Parnas

• End-to-End Arguments in System Design, Saltzer, Reed, & Clark

• Why Do Computers Stop and What Can We Do About It, Jim Gray

• Making Web Services that Work, Steve Loughran

• Designing & Deploying Internet-Scale Services, James Hamilton

• Brewer's conjecture, Gilbert & Lynch

[1] The exception - not a paper, but I wish it was.