I don't have a favorite research paper, but there is a long Ph.D. thesis I've recently read in its entirety and found a lot of interesting ideas: Programming w

I don't have a favorite research paper, but there is a long Ph.D. thesis I've recently read in its entirety and found a lot of interesting ideas: Programming with Agents: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-Contents.html http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-Contents.ht... Here is a short paper with a clear description of an ingenious idea. Engineered Robustness by Controlled Hallucination: http://web.mit.edu/jakebeal/www/Publications/NIAI-2008.pdf http://web.mit.edu/jakebeal/www/Publications/NIAI-2008.pdf I like the simplicity of it. Most CS researches seem to be afraid of describing things that are simple, even if those things are non-obviosu and valuable.