## ![Papers We Love](http://papers-we-love.github.io/images/logo-top.svg) **Papers We Love** is a community built around reading, discussing and learning more about academic computer science papers. This repository serves as a directory of some of the best papers the community can find, bringing together documents scattered across the web. Due to [licenses](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love#respect-content-licenses) we cannot always host the papers themselves (when we do, you will see a :scroll: emoji next to its title in the directory README) but we can provide links to their locations. If you enjoy the papers, perhaps stop by a local chapter meetup and join in on the vibrant discussions around them. ### Chapters Here are our official chapters. Let us know if you are interested in [starting one](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Creating-a-PWL-chapter) in your city! * [New York City](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/) * [San Francisco](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/) || [Meetup list](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/tree/master/_meetups/SanFrancisco) * [Chicago](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Chicago) * [London](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-london) * [Colorado](http://papersweloveco.org) * [Ohio](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Columbus/) * [Berlin](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Berlin/) * [Pune](http://www.meetup.com/Doo-Things) * [Boston](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Boston/) * [Singapore](https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperswelovesg/) * [Bangalore](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-we-love-Bangalore/) * [Washington, DC](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-DC/) * [Montreal](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Montreal/) * [Seattle](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Seattle/) * [Toronto](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toronto/) * [Hamburg](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Hamburg/) * [Reykjavík](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Reykjavik) * [Dallas](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Dallas/) * [Vienna](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Vienna/) All of our meetups follow our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). ### Past Presentations View a complete list of [past presentations](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Past-Presentations) or check out our [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/user/PapersWeLove) and [MixCloud](http://www.mixcloud.com/paperswelove/) (audio-only format) channels. ## Search this Repo! 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Find papers [here](http://findpaperswelove.com) ! ## 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 * [Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983](http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/) * [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 Research](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=publications) * [Functional Programming Books Review](http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/) * [MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications](http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39813) * [MIT's Distributed System's Reading Group](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/) * [arXiv Paper Repository](http://arxiv.org/) * [SciRate](https://scirate.com/) * [cat-v.org](http://doc.cat-v.org/) * [y-archive](http://yarchive.net/comp/index.html) * [netlib](http://www.netlib.org/) * [Services Engineering Reading List](https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering) * [Readings in Distributed Systems](http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html) * [Gradual Typing Bibliography](http://samth.github.io/gradual-typing-bib/) * [Security Data Science Papers](http://www.covert.io/security-datascience-papers/) * [Research Papers from Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers.htm) * [Lobste.rs tagged as PDF](https://lobste.rs/t/pdf) Please check out our [wiki-page](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Other-Good-Sources-of-Reading-Material) for links to blogs, books, exchanges that are worth a good read. ### 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. Note that every pull request we receive must have Two-Thumbs-Up minimum from PWL organizers/collaborators to be merged. ### Follow the group's ethos We want to help bring academic research closer to practitioners and we strive to: * **Keep the quality of papers listed high:** Books, blogposts, and/or reference pdfs don't go through the same review process that academic papers do and we won't add them to this repo. * **Help people understand why a paper is important:** We ask that you include with your commit an update to the directory README with a short justification of why you love this paper (for example: A paper might be interesting because it spawned a new domain, it was exceptionally well-written, or perhaps it was completely wrong about something.) ### Respect content licenses * **We will only merge pull requests that contain research papers that allow digital distribution.** Papers whose copyright prohibits redistribution will not be accepted; for example [license 1](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy-v1) from the [ACM digital library](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy). * We encourage papers that do not allow digital distribution to be added to a README in the appropriate subject's folder. For example, [the distributed systems README](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/distributed_systems/README.md). ### Follow our naming convention * 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. ### Copyright The name "Papers We Love" and the logos for the organization are copyrighted, and under the ownership of Papers We Love NYC, all rights reserved. When starting a chapter, please review [our guidelines](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Creating-a-PWL-chapter) and ask us about using the logo.