About us
Interested in reading some of the classic and newly classic papers in computer science?
This is the Portland, OR chapter of Papers We Love, an organization that curates interesting papers in the computer science literature and helps organize local chapters to read and discuss them.
Prior to each event we will select a paper to read and post it so that attendees can read it in advance to promote good discussion.
At each gathering we will discuss the paper and select the next one to read.
If you know of a great paper we could read, please submit it via GitHub Issues.
You can also join our Discord channel.
Upcoming events
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The FLP Paper
The Glass Lab, The Glass lab, Portland, OR, USOur next paper is "Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process" by Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson. This paper is considered foundational for blockchain and modern distributed architectures.
The consensus problem involves an asynchronous system of processes, some of which may be unreliable. The problem is for the reliable processes to agree on a binary value. In this paper, it is shown that every protocol for this problem has the possibility of non-termination, even with only one faulty process. By way of contrast, solutions are known for the synchronous case, the “Byzantine Generals” problem.
Link: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm85.pdf
Afterwards we'll socialize with a drink and a bite somewhere nearby.
We will let you in so please arrive on time.
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Past events
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