Someone posted a request to the programming subreddit for compsci
papers to read over a weekend. There is a big list of papers from all
sorts of places.

 Some that I found interesting:

   Steele and Sussman's The Art of the Interpreter
http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-453.pdf
  Cook, Carpenter and Catmull's The Reyes Rendering
Architecture http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Reyes/paper.pdf
  Courant's Variational Methods for the Solution of Problems of
Equilibrium and Vibrations
http://home.agh.edu.pl/%7Emilenin/programs/doc/Courant_1943.pdf
  Baraff's Linear-Time Dynamics using Lagrange Multipliers
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baraff/papers/sig96.pdf
  The implementation of Lua 5.0
http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/jucs05.pdf
  Efficient implementation of the smalltalk-80 system
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/540956.html

 It is interesting that there are so many seminal papers in computer
science. One day I'll read some old school Timoshenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Timoshenko.