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THE 7 MOST INFLUENTIAL PAPERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE HISTORY

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This is a subjective list of seven highly influential papers in computer science history. The list spans from Alan Turing's foundational work on computation in 1936 to Sergey Brin and Larry Page's development of PageRank in 1998. The papers cover key areas like information theory, database management, algorithm complexity, and the architecture of the internet.