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I’m a computer “scientist” and haven’t read a single one of these. And now I’m even more ashamed because I want the StackOverflow cliff notes. Seriously, this s

I’m a computer “scientist” and haven’t read a single one of these. And now I’m even more ashamed because I want the StackOverflow cliff notes. Seriously, this should be a book with commentary. Does such a thing exist? Maybe a project for Walter Isaacson.

bawolff 6y ago
Probably the biggest benefit is seeing how these ideas were introduced when new, the original context, how they were justified, why the researchers were interested in them, etc. Many (not all) of these are really foundational things that you probably already "know" the key points of or could easily look up on wikipedia.
macintux 6y ago
Adrian Colyer's blog isn't a bad place to start. https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/29/my-new-years-resolution-read-a-research-paper-every-weekday/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/29/my-new-years-resolution-...
Jtsummers 6y ago
Many of these were probably already distilled into a combination of textbook material, lectures and lecture notes, and class projects during the course of your degree. Though how much of it you were exposed to would depend on your particular subfield/focus during your degree program.
jsyedidia 6y ago
The book will be released on February 2. "Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science" edited by Harry Lewis, and published by MIT Press.
- semireg 6y ago
  Pre-ordered. Thank you!
tzs 6y ago
For at least one of the papers in there a book of commentary does exist: "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine" [1] by Charles Petzold. The Wikipedia article describes it thusly: > Petzold annotates Alan Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". The book takes readers sentence by sentence through Turing's paper, providing explanations, further examples, corrections, and biographical information. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing

bawolff 6y ago

Probably the biggest benefit is seeing how these ideas were introduced when new, the original context, how they were justified, why the researchers were interested in them, etc. Many (not all) of these are really foundational things that you probably already "know" the key points of or could easily look up on wikipedia.

macintux 6y ago

Adrian Colyer's blog isn't a bad place to start. https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/29/my-new-years-resolution-read-a-research-paper-every-weekday/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/29/my-new-years-resolution-...

Jtsummers 6y ago

Many of these were probably already distilled into a combination of textbook material, lectures and lecture notes, and class projects during the course of your degree. Though how much of it you were exposed to would depend on your particular subfield/focus during your degree program.

jsyedidia 6y ago

The book will be released on February 2. "Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science" edited by Harry Lewis, and published by MIT Press.

semireg 6y ago
Pre-ordered. Thank you!

tzs 6y ago

For at least one of the papers in there a book of commentary does exist: "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine" [1] by Charles Petzold. The Wikipedia article describes it thusly: > Petzold annotates Alan Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". The book takes readers sentence by sentence through Turing's paper, providing explanations, further examples, corrections, and biographical information. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing