What are the must read books or papers for computer science student?

Hi Vishnu, Papers for Computer Science students: 1. Paxos - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/</a> Providing a backbone for understanding how can distributed systems 2. Byzantine Fault Tolerance -<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824</a> If you have a system of N machines, and X are currupt, what will happen. Also video: Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance 3. Trusting Trust - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>http://mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/</a> - When it comes to bugs / security, we're hopeless. You can't prevent it. You can minimize the consequences, though. 4. Log Structured Fault System - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/</a> Gives a lot of insight of how to make systems reliable while keeping them performance 5. Beyond Stack Smashing - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~norm/508/2" style='word-wrap:break-word;'>http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~norm/508/2</a> Understanding system vulnerabilities via buffer overflow 6. Hints for Computer System Design - Excerpts from Butler Lampson's &quot;Hints for Computer System Design&quot; Hope it helps. Please feel free to revert. Click on the thumbs up or mark it as the best, if you found this useful. Wish You Luck!

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