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Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search
Newell and Simon present their view on computer science: the machine as the organism we study.
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Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search
Newell and Simon present their view on computer science: the machine as the organism we study.
- Type
- Paper
- Period
- 1975–1976
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- Communications of the ACM
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages
Ted Codd’s paper which established the equivalence in expressive power between relational calculus and relational algebra.
- Type
- Paper
- Period
- 1972
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- IBM Research Laboratory
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System
Selinger (et al.) paper on the cost-based optimizer.
- Type
- Paper
- Period
- 1979
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- IBM Research Division
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
A folk story on computer science.
- Type
- Site
- Period
- 1983
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- University of Utah
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
A collection of Bjarne Stroustrup’s Quotes.
- Type
- Site
- Period
- 2025
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- Stroustrup's Page
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around...
Stonebraker and Pavlo’s analysis of 20 years of data models.
- Type
- Paper
- Period
- 2024
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- University of Washington
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sonebraker and Hellerstein’s summary of 35 years of data models.
- Type
- Paper
- Period
- 2005
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
MapReduce: A major step backwards
David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker’s views on MapReduce.
- Type
- Snapshot
- Period
- 2008–2009
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- University of Washington
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
Lecture of What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around...
Andy Pavlo’s lecture on his paper “What Goes Around Comes Around… And Around…”.
- Type
- Lecture
- Period
- 2024
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
GNU Gospel
A Joke about the Church of EMACS.
- Type
- Web site
- Period
- 2021
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- GNU Project
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued
Linus's Proposal for O_DIRECT Redesign
Mail discussion about Linus Torvald’s redesign proposal for O_DIRECT.
- Type
- Period
- 2002–2007
- Location
- Internet
- Source
- Usenet Archives
- Rights
- N/A
- Status
- Catalogued