John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
Claude Elwood Shannon: collected papers
Claude Elwood Shannon: collected papers
Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer
Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer
Alan Turing
Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel
Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel
Research, teaching, and service: the miniconference as a model for CS graduate seminar courses
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
The design of a history of computing course with a unique perspective
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
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Computer science has a reputation of being a discipline in a perpetual state of accelerated progress-a discipline in which our techniques, our hardware, our software systems, and our literature rarely exhibit a staying power of more than several years. While undeniably exciting, this state of continual intellectual upheaval can leave computer science students (and faculty) with a disturbing sense that there is no essential core of great work within the discipline. This paper describes a readings course entitled "Computer Science: the Canon" whose purpose is to counter this perception by exploring a set of "great works" in computer science. We describe our own (undoubtedly idiosyncratic) reading list used for the course, and discuss several central issues involved in offering such a course within a computer science curriculum.