| Author | Title | Publisher/Source |
| Aiken, Howard | Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine [1937] | Reprinted in Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer I. B. Cohen, G. Welch, and R. Campbell (eds.) MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1999 |
| Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace | Notes on the Analytical Engine [1842] | Reprinted in Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines Philip and Emily Morrison, eds. Dover, New York 1961 |
| Babbage, Charles | Of the Analytical Engine [1864] | Excerpted from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher M. Campbell-Kelly (ed.) Rutgers U. Press (reprint) 1994 |
| Boole, George | An Investigation of the Laws of Thought [1854] | Dover Books, NY |
| Bush, Vannevar | As We May Think [1945] | Reprinted in From Memex to Hypertext, J. Nyce (ed.) Academic Books 1991 |
| Brooks, Frederick | The Mythical Man-Month | Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 1975 |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] | Reprinted by New American Library, 1993 |
| Dijkstra, E. | Go To Statement Considered Harmful [1968] | Reprinted in Communications of the ACM, 26:1 (Jan. 1983) |
| Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control [1965] | ||
| Feynman, Richard | Feynman Lectures on Computation | Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 1996 |
| There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom [1959] | In Feynman and Computation, A. Hey, (ed.) Perseus Books, Reading, MA. 1999. | |
| Gardner, Martin | Columns on John Conway's game of Life | Originally inScientific American (1970) Reprinted in Wheels, Life, and other Mathematical Amusements W. H. Freeman 1985 |
| Goedel, Kurt | On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems [1931] | Dover Books, 1992 |
| Karp, R. | Reducibility among Combinatorial Problems | In Complexity of Computer Computations (pp. 85-104) R.E. Miller and J. W. Thatcher, eds. Plenum Press, NY 1972 |
| Leibniz, G. | On His Calculating Machine [1685] | Reprinted in A Source Book of Mathematics, D.E. Smith, ed. Dover Books, NY 1959 |
| Licklider, J.C.R. | Man-Computer Symbiosis [1960] | IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, HFE-1: 411, March |
| The Computer as a Communication Device [1968] | Science and Technology, April. | |
| Papert, Seymour | Mindstorms [1980] | MIT Press, Cambridge MA |
| Pascal, B. | On His Calculating Machine [c. 1650] | Reprinted in A Source Book of Mathematics, D.E. Smith, ed. Dover Books, NY 1959 |
| Shannon, Claude | The Mathematical Theory of Communication [1948] | Reprinted in The Mathematical Theory of Communication C. Shannon and W. Weaver University of Illinois Press, 1963 |
| Simon, Herbert A. | The Sciences of the Artificial [1969/1981] | MIT Press, Cambridge MA (2nd edition) |
| Turing, Alan | Computing Machinery and Intelligence [1950] | Mind. Reprinted in Readings in Cognitive Science Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA |
| On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem [1937] | Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, v.42 (1937) | |
| Von Neumann, J. | First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC [1945] | Reprinted in The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers Brian Randell, ed. Springer-Verlag, 1973 |
| The General and Logical Theory of Automata [1951] | Reprinted in The World of Mathematics J. Newman, ed. Simon and Schuster, 1956 | |
| Wiener, Norbert | Cybernetics [1948/1961] | MIT Press, 1962 |