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| Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System | Sutherland, I. | 1.7 MB |
| Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control | Dijkstra, E. W. in Communications of the ACM, 8:9, Sept. 1965; reprinted in CACM's 25th Anniversary Issue, 26:1, 1983. | 216 KB |
| Reducibility among Combinatorial Problems | Karp, R. Reprinted from Complexity of Computer Computations, Miller, R. et. al. (eds.) Plenum Press, 1972. | 568 KB |
| Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60 | Naur et. al. in Communciations of the ACM, 3:5, 1960. | 980 KB |
| Minds, Brains, and Programs | Searle, J. R. Reprinted in Haugeland, J. (ed.) Mind Design II, MIT Press, 1997. | 903 KB |
| The Game of Life (Parts I-III) | Gardner, M. in Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements. W.H. Freeman and Co. 1983 | 1 MB |
| Giant Brains or Machines that Think. Ch. 1-2 and Ch. 11-12 | Berkeley, E., John Wiley and Sons, 1949. | 568 KB, 908 KB |
| As We May Think | Bush, V. | 8.6 MB |
| The General and Logical Theory of Automata | Von Neumann, J. printed in The Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 12. Aspray and Burks (eds.) MIT Press, 1987. | 1.6 MB |
| First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC | Von Neumann, J. printed in The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers. Randell, B. (ed.) Springer-Verlag, 1982. | 7.2 MB |
| Pascal: On his Calculating Machine and Leibniz: On his Calculating Machine | Pascal, Leibniz | 733 K |
| Of the Analytical Engine | Babbage | 3.0 MB |
| Of the Analytical Engine - missing page | Babbage | 68 KB |
| Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine | Aiken | 10.0 MB |
| Computing Machinery and Intelligence [In Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy] | Turing | 981 KB |
| On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, ser. 2, vol. 42 (1936-7). | Turing | 1 MB |