Foundations of computing
From the imaginary machine to the web it eventually built.
shelf — any order
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On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
The machine that existed only on paper, and defined all the ones that followed.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
How to think in programs. Still the best book ever written about it.
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As We May Think
Hypertext, search, and the knowledge worker — imagined in 1945.
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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Two students describe Google, including the parts that worried them.
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Why open source works — the essay that convinced the industry.