Seminal Paper Club

(Approximately) Every week, a friend and I read a seminal paper and discuss it. There are so many pieces of writing that become part of our culture - we reference them, but how many people know what they actually say?

12/23/2018 - On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties

12/16/2018 - Space-Time Appxoach to Quantum Electrodynamics

12/9/2018 - Small World Networks - Watts and Strogatz

11/25/2018 - THE ISOLATION OF AN ION, A PRECISION MEASURE-MENT OF ITS CHARGE, AND THE CORRECTION OF STOKES’S LAW. RA Millikan

9/16/2018 - A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Swiching Circuits (Claud Shannon’s Master’s Thesis - The Most Cited Master’s Thesis Ever)

9/9/2018 - On Problem Solving

9/2/2018 - A Devonian Tretrapod-Like Fish and the Evolution of the Tetrapod Body

8/19/2018 - The Magic Number 7 Plus or Minus 2

8/5/2018 - What the Frog’s Eye Told the Frog’s Brain

7/8/2018 - THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF QUANTUM THEORETICAL KINEMATICS AND MECHANICS. Heisenberg.

7/1/2018 - The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics. Erwin Schrodinger

6/24/2018 - The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? Hauser and Chomsky

6/7/2018 - “Relative State” Formulation of Quantum Mechanics. HUGH EVERETT) III)

5/31/2018 - Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments Justin Kruger and David Dunning

5/13/2018 - Particle Creation by Black Holes S.W. Hawking

5/7/2018 - Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates. R.I.M Dunbar.

4/29/2018 - Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits. Gordon Moore

4/22/2018 - V. Experimental researches in electricity Michael Faraday, F. R. S., M. R. I. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 1832 122, 125-162, published 1 January 1832

4/15/2018 - John von Neumann COLLECTED WORKS Volume v DESIGN OF COMPUTERS, THEORY OF AUTOMATA AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

4/8/2018 - A Theory of Human Motivation A. H. Maslow (1943)

4/1/2018 - A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity. ie. CRISPR.

3/18/2018 - The Synthesis of Ammonia from its Elements. Fritz Haber

3/11/2018 - Science as Falsification. Karl Popper

2/25/2018 - An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin Concerning the Connection of Samples in Chains. A.A. Markov 1913

2/17/2018 - A t

2/11/2018 - Separation of Ownership and Control. Fama et. al. 1983 NOTE: if you or someone you know can explain why this paper is heavily cited, let me know.

2/4/2018 - Intro to Material Science - NOTE: If you have a good seminal paper in material science, let me know.

1/27/2018 - EQUILIBRIUM POINTS IN N-PERSON GAMES

1/20/2018 - Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model

1/13/2018 - On the Relationship between the Second Fundamental Theorem of the Mechanical Theory of Heat and Probability Calculations Regarding theConditions for Thermal Equilibrium

1/7/2018 - Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren

12/30/2017 - ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS, WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM By Turing

12/23/2017 - Marie Curie Radiation Paper

12/16/2017 - Schmidhuber Original LSTM Paper

12/10/2017 - Theory of Interstellar Trade by Paul Krugman

12/3/2017 - Original Hubble Paper on Expanding Universe

11/26/2017 - Original Black Hole Paper

11/19/2017 - The Role of Monetary Policy