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- Complexity in the Sciences Milnor's collection of essays on complexity. He talks about complexity theory, molecular basis of life, game theory. His claim is that at some point a unified theory tying all these together will come up.
- An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances. The classic Bayes theorem paper that was published in 1763.
- As we may think by Vannevar Bush in 1945. A nice article looking out into the future. He talks about an interesting device called the memex. The Endeavour project is pretty close to what Bush was thinking about.
- There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom Transcript of the classic talk Feynman gave in 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.
- What Next? A dozen remaining IT problems.Jim Gray's Turing Award lecture. Local copy Not surprisingly Jim Gray devoted some time to talk about Bush's article and the memex.
- Digital immortality A paper by Jim Gray and Gordon Bell on digital immortality and passing on data to future generations. Local copy
- "MOORE'S LAW" The Benchmark of Progress in Semiconductor Electronics A good article on Moore's Law by Bob Schaller.
- Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by Rene Descartes
- The Hacker Crackdown - Amazing electronic book on hacking of telephone systems in the 80's.
- Ken Thompson's Turing award lecture Thompson sympathized with the hackers during this lecture. Thompson was awarded the Turing award in 1983 at the height of the Hacker crackdown.
- Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks Robert M. Metcalfe classic Ethernet paper
- Max Planck's Nobel address (1920) This is an excerpt. Please send me mail if you can find the full text somewhere.
- Optimal Juggling A very thorough analysis of juggling patterns
- Juggling a 4 ball cascade A very thorough and mathematical analysis on why juggling a 4 ball cascade is impossible. Local copy
- An article about Exponential which appeared in Fast Company - Feb 1999.Local copy
The dream behind Exponential Technology was bold -- to build the world's fastest computer chip. The reality was messy. The end was bloody -- $30 million of wasted capital, four years of wasted effort. So why are so many people grateful for the experience? Added March 2, 2000
- A diatribe on why system software research is irrelevant. Very interesting slides by Rob Pike (Bell Labs). Thanks to AK for forwarding me the link.
- The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors. This paper appeeared in the IEEE Proceedings, December 1995.
- Logical Effort: Designing for Speed on the Back of an Envelope An excellent tutorial. Based on Sutherland's work.
- Micropipelines - Turing award lecture of Ivan Sutherland
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