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> This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present. But the latest paper listed is from 1986. Has there re
by mrtnmcc 6y ago
> This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present.
But the latest paper listed is from 1986. Has there really been no fundamental CS progress in ~four decades?
- bawolff 6y agoIs 40 years enough time to really establish if something is fundamental? Its not history if its still happening.
- Jtsummers 6y agoThe latest paper actually seemed to be 1999. The purpose of the course doesn't seem to be to establish the totality of fundamental CS papers, but to place CS developments in a historical context covering them from their creation forward.