On the Use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete Fourier Transform [1]. Why? I think its a good paper overall. Clear, concise, and a fundamental read in the world of signal processing.<p>But I like it for another reason. It proves you can have an insanely cited paper (~10k citations) by summarizing the work of others in a clear concise manner. It proves there is academic value in not just churning out "novel" research, but by presenting existing facts in a new and useful light. It doesnt leave the reader working out the the (perhaps sometimes ego-driven) equation jumps. It holds your hand and walks you through the subject in a really refreshing way.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~domingo/teaching/inel5309/On%20the%20Use%20of%20Windows%20for%20Harmonic%20Analysis%20with%20the%20DFT.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~domingo/teaching/inel5309/On%20the%...</a>
One of the explanations of a fundamental encoding algorithm for data encryption is one I enjoy reading. There were other papers, but this is a good explanation of arithmetic coding - <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/Class/10704/Intro_Arith_coding.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/Class/10704/Intro_Arith_coding...</a>
[1] is an great research paper about supporting temporal data in SQL. It goes beyond the SQL:2011 standard to support temporal outer joins and some other things. Basically they define a temporal variant for each relational operator then show how to implement them all based on just two join-like additions to SQL. They even implemented a proof-of-concept in Postgres. I wrote some more about their paper in my temporal databases bibliography [2] (ctrl-f "Alignment"). The paper is easy to read & understand, and it solves problems people have been working on since the 90s, with the most elegant solution I've seen.<p>[1] <a href="https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/boehlen/Papers/modf174-dignoes.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/boehlen/Papers/modf174-dignoes.pdf</a><p>[2] <a href="https://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2017/12/temporal-databases-bibliography/" rel="nofollow">https://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2017/12/temporal-data...</a>
[1] Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System<p>Why I consider the paper to be the best? The imply, the authorship, the flawlessness.<p>[1] bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf