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Can we put together all the listed papers here? Reply with one if you know where it is. One paper per reply please.
by llimllib 9y ago
Can we put together all the listed papers here? Reply with one if you know where it is. One paper per reply please.
- llimllib 9y agoMy personal favorite, Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication: http://worrydream.com/refs/Shannon%20-%20A%20Mathematical%20Theory%20of%20Communication.pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/Shannon%20-%20A%20Mathematical%20...
- lisper 9y agoHeh, just found a mistake in this paper: "A device with two stable positions, such as a relay or a flip-flop circuit, can store one bit of information. N such devices can store N bits, since the total number of possible states is 2^N and log(base2) 2^N = N." This is true only if the devices/bits are in a known order. If they are unordered, then N devices can store only log(N) bits of information (because the state of the system is completely characterized by the number of 1 bits, and that ranges from 0 to N). This is not a completely academic observation. For example, if you have two thumb drives, each of which stores N bits, the two of them together store 2N bits ONLY if you can tell which drive is which. If you can't distinguish them, then the sum total of information they contain is 2N-1 bits.
- chj 9y ago> This is true only if the devices/bits are in a known order. I think that's an assumption.
- llimllib 9y agoAiken, "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine": http://history-computer.com/Library/AikenProposal.pdf http://history-computer.com/Library/AikenProposal.pdf
- llimllib 9y agoBackus, "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs": https://github.com/emintham/Papers/blob/master/Backus%20-%20Can%20Programming%20Be%20Liberated%20from%20the%20von%20Neumann%20Style%3F%20A%20Functional%20Style%20and%20Its%20Algebra%20of%20Programs.pdf https://github.com/emintham/Papers/blob/master/Backus%20-%20...
- llimllib 9y agoBerkeley, "Giant Brains, or Machines that Think": https://monoskop.org/images/b/bc/Berkeley_Edmund_Callis_Giant_Brains_or_Machines_That_Think.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/b/bc/Berkeley_Edmund_Callis_Gian...
- llimllib 9y agoBoole, "An Investigation into the Laws of Thought": https://books.google.com/books?id=DqwAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=An+Investigation+of+the+Laws+of+Thought&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiR16L0nb7UAhWCbT4KHX3NBrwQ6AEIIjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=DqwAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=fron...
- llimllib 9y agoBush, "As We May Think": https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...
- a3n 9y agoThere was a companion piece 20 years later in the Atlantic, by Greenberger. Both are linked from here: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/computer/tech.htm https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/compu...
- hcs 9y agovon Neumann, "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" Mimeograph: https://archive.org/details/firstdraftofrepo00vonn/ https://archive.org/details/firstdraftofrepo00vonn/ Retypeset: https://archive.org/details/vnedvac/ https://archive.org/details/vnedvac/
- hcs 9y agoSutherland, "Sketchpad: a Man-Machine Graphical Communication System" http://worrydream.com/refs/Sutherland-Sketchpad.pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/Sutherland-Sketchpad.pdf
- hcs 9y agoTarjan, "Depth-first search and linear graph algorithms" http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~gilbert/cs240a/notes/TarjanDFS.pdf http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~gilbert/cs240a/notes/TarjanDFS.pdf
- openfuture 9y agoThey're probably all on sci-hub and/or library genesis.
- hcs 9y agoSmith, "A Source Book in Mathematics" https://archive.org/details/sourcebookinmath00smit https://archive.org/details/sourcebookinmath00smit Contains the writings by Leibniz and Pascal on calculating machines.
- vertere 9y agoAda Lovelace's Notes on the Analytical Engine or Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage; By L. F. MENABREA of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers; from the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, October, 1842, No. 82; With notes upon the Memoir by the Translator ADA AUGUSTA, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html Lovelace's notes start about one third of the way down the page.
- jecel 9y agohttps://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxha2hsYWdoZWF8Z3g6NzgyOWYxNWNjMjE5ZjVh https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd... Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert This was kindly made officially available online after his death.