Most Influential Papers in Computer Science

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