Start here: the first five papers
Five papers, five weeks, zero prerequisites. The spine of the whole archive.
reading path — in order
- 01
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Read this first. Turing writes like a novelist with a proof deadline — and computers do not exist yet.
- 02
As We May Think
Now that you know what a machine is, watch Bush imagine the internet in 1945.
- 03
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
The one where information becomes measurable. Every later paper stands on this.
- 04
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Turing again, fourteen years later, asking whether machines can think.
- 05
Attention Is All You Need
The paper behind the software you used today. You can now read it properly.