What are your nominations for papers of the last decade (or so), ones that will show up in textbooks or change the fabric of what we do and how for decades to come?
Here are a few candidates my team (mostly quantum folks) and I came up with. Although I initially phrased it as "of the last decade", some took the liberty of going back a little farther, and I personally followed on from that with a few suggestions of my own.
- 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (pseudonymous; for better or worse, its impact cannot be denied)
- 2009: Jacobson et al., Networking named content (PARC; this deeply influential idea was first publicly presented at Google, in a 2006 talk that is available on YouTube)
- 2009: Craig Gentry, Fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices (IBM)
- 2009: Broadbent, Fitzsimons, Kashefi, Universal blind quantum computation (Waterloo, Edinburgh)
- 2012: Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Hinton, ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (Toronto; a review in 2015 by a different but overlapping set of authors is also highly cited)
- 2014: Barends et al., Superconducting quantum circuits at the surface code threshold for fault tolerance (Google)
- 2017: Vaswani et al., Attention is All You Need (Google Brain/Google Research; geez, cited 120,000 times as of May 2024, according to Google Scholar)
- 2018: Silver et al., A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play (Google; I considered citing the earlier paper, which is cited more often, but this one is the more complete victory, and the more complete from-scratch learning system, and marks the end point of this particular path of research)
- 2020: Zhengfeng Ji, Natarajan, Vidick, Wright, Henry Yuen, MIP* = RE (UT Sydney, Caltech, UT Austin, Toronto; this is almost entirely beyond my ability to comprehend)
- Scott Aaronson blog post
- CACM article (with a good technical introduction)
- the whole 223-page shebang (still unpublished, AFAIK)
(n.b.: I consider this to still be an open discussion, but am publishing so that people can comment)
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