[vshan]

1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem by Alan Turing

2. A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon

3. Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine by John McCarthy.

4. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto

5. Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson

6. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System by Leslie Lamport

7. As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

8. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page

[FredrikMeyer]

I was about to post your number 3 before I saw it here. Here's a link to it: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html