## Papers We Love

Repository related to the following meetups:

* [NYC - Papers We Love](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/)
* [SF - Papers We Love too](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/)
* [London - Papers We Love](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-london)

Let us know if you are interested in starting a chapter!

## Info

We're looking for pull requests related to papers we should add, better organization of the papers we do have, and/or links to other paper-repos we should point to.

## Other Good Places to Find Papers

* [Best Paper Awards in Computer Science](http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html)
* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/publications)
* [Google Scholar](http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng) (choose a subcategory)
* [Microsoft](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=publications)
* [Vijay D'Silva](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vijayd/#papers)
* [Functional Programming Books Review](http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/)
* [MIT's Distributed System's Reading Group](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/)
* [arXiv Paper Repository](http://arxiv.org/)
* [SciRate](https://scirate.com/)

## How To Read a Paper

Reading a paper is not the same as reading a blogpost or a novel. Here are a few handy resources to help you get started.

* [How to read an academic article] (http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2010/08/31/how-to-read-an-academic-article/)
* [Advice on reading academic papers] (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~akmassey/posts/2012-02-15-advice-on-reading-academic-papers.html)
* [How to read and understand a scientific paper] (http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/08/25/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-2/)

## Contributing Guidelines

We have a few guidelines in place to keep the repo clean and easy to navigate. We recommend that you follow these conventions in your pull-request for a speedy merge.

* Directory names are undercased and separated by underscores (example: `artificial_intelligence`)
* Paper names are undercased and separated by dashes (example: `out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf`). Use the full title when possible.

## Papers We Love Presentations

* Check out our Youtube [channel](http://www.youtube.com/user/PapersWeLove)
* [Michael Bernstein](http://michaelrbernste.in/) on [A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtUtfARSIv8)