I was wondering what you consider to be landmark papers in the history of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Some obvious examples are:

Pearson's PCA: https://zenodo.org/record/1430636#.XXaGseNKj-g

Rosenblatts's Perceptron: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.335.3398&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Nilson's A*: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4082128

LeCun's theory of backprop: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-88.pdf

Vapeniks SVMs: http://image.diku.dk/imagecanon/material/cortes_vapnik95.pdf

Schmidhubers LSTM: https://www.bioinf.jku.at/publications/older/2604.pdf

etc... But this is a huge field and I'm sure there are many more that merit inclusion. No one person is aware of all of them so I'm hoping the HN hive mind can help find the hidden gems that many of us are missing.

Thanks!