The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History – Terrible Software“On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (1936)
Author: Alan Turing
=> defined computing
“A Mathematical Theory of Communication” (1948)
Author: Claude Shannon
=> defined information
“A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” (1970)
Author: Edgar F. Codd
=> defined databases
“The Complexity of Theorem-Proving Procedures” (1971)
Author: Stephen A. Cook
“A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication” (1974)
Authors: Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
=> internet
“Information Management: A Proposal” (1989)
Author: Tim Berners-Lee
=> web
“The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” (1998)
Authors: Sergey Brin and Larry Page
=> search
“Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine” (1960) –
John McCarthy
“Go To Statement Considered Harmful” (1968)
Edsger Dijkstra
"Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System” (1978)
Leslie Lamport
“No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering” (1986)
Fred Brooks
“Attention Is All You Need” (2017)
Vaswani et al.
=> LLMs AI