Classics of Computer Science

Some times you hear about quotes from Edsger Dijkstra like 'goto considered harmful'. However, you rarely find the details of actual arguments. So I have decided to collect such gems which I consider classics, which someway helped me understand new concept and references/links to original papers/books.

I am planning to keep on updating these list.

Papers/Articles of Edsger W. Dijkstra:

1. Humble programmer 
2. Goto Considered Harmful :  Transcript,  scanned PDF of original paper 
   This paper introduced concept of 'structured programming'

Papers/Article of David Parnas:

1. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules,
   Written in Year 1971, this paper introduced basic concepts of object oriented design (especially concept of encapsulation). I find that programmer still confused the concept of 'encapsulation' as 'hiding the data' rather than 'hiding the change'

Papers/Articles from Google

1. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
   Paper that triggered big data processing architecture revolution and triggered the opensource Apache Hadoop project.
2. Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data
   Demonstrated how big data analytics can be used to solve some existing problems in entirely different way.
   
   "Here we present a method of analyzing large numbers of Google search queries to track influenza-like illness in a population. Because the relative frequency of certain queries is highly correlated with the percentage of physician visits in which a patient presents with influenza-like symptoms, we can accurately estimate the current level of weekly influenza activity in each region of the United States, with a reporting lag of about one day."

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