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Classic research papers
Support vector machine
B. E. Boser, I. M. Guyon and V. N. Vapnik. A training algorithm for optimum margin classifiers. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory 5: 144-152, 1992.
Boosting
R. E. Schapire. The strength of weak learnability. Machine Learning 5(2):197–227, 1990.
Learnability
A. Blumer, A. Ehrenfeucht, D. Haussler and M. K. Warmuth. Learnability and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension. Journal of the ACM 36(4): 929–965, 1989.
Decision Trees
J.R. Quinlan. Induction of Decision Trees. Machine Learning 1: 81-106, 1986.
Bootstrap
B. Efron. Bootstrap methods: Another look at the Jackknife. The Annals of Statistics 7: 1-26, 1979.
NP-completeness
S. A. Cook. The complexity of theorem-proving procedures. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing: 151-158, 1971.
Protein Folding and the Thermodynamic Hypothesis
The Christian B. Anfinsen Papers: 1950-1962
Structure of DNA
J.D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick. Molecular structure of nucleic acids. Nature 4356: 737-738, 1953.
Turing test
A. M. Turing. Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind 236: 433-460, 1950.
von Neumann architecture
J. von Neumann. First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, 1945.
Turing machine
A. M. Turing. On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 42: 230-265, 1936, correction 43: 544-546, 1937.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem
K. Gödel. Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 38: 173-98, 1931. A modern translation: M. Hirzel. On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and related systems I, 2000.