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Here are the things we discussed:

Dave Thomas proposed

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs

John Backus

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf

MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat

http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html

Michael Feathers proposed

A History of Haskell: being lazy with class

Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Simon Peyton Jones, Philip Wadler

http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/index.htm

Brian Marick proposed

Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions

Read Montague

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Choose-This-Book-Decisions/dp/0525949828