{"id":7086,"date":"2013-03-14T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2013-09-10T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:14:05","slug":"what-cs-papers-should-everyone-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/what-cs-papers-should-everyone-read\/","title":{"rendered":"What CS Papers Should Everyone Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cstheory.stackexchange.com\/questions\/1168\/what-papers-should-everyone-read\">Ryan Williams<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CompSciFact\/status\/309706358050152448\">@CompSciFact<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/cstheory.stackexchange.com\/questions\/1168\/what-papers-should-everyone-read\"><p>We all have favorite papers in our own respective areas of theory. Every once in a while, one finds a paper so astounding (e.g., important, compelling, deceptively simple, etc.) that one wants to share it with everyone. So list these papers here!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Embarrassingly, I think I&rsquo;ve only read one of these, the fun <a href=\"http:\/\/cstheory.stackexchange.com\/a\/1217\/13089\">Ken Thompson<\/a> one about a compiler Trojan horse.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/10-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice\/\">10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science\/6-033-computer-system-engineering-spring-2009\/readings\/\">6.033 reading list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2013-09-10): An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/countering_trus.html\">old Bruce Schneier post<\/a> discusses David A. Wheeler&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwheeler.com\/trusting-trust\/\">Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Williams (via @CompSciFact): We all have favorite papers in our own respective areas of theory. Every once in a while, one finds a paper so astounding (e.g., important, compelling, deceptively simple, etc.) that one wants to share it with everyone. So list these papers here! Embarrassingly, I think I&rsquo;ve only read one of these, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,263],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-compiler","tag-theory"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7809,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}