What are the great ideas in computing?
apu: I'll start with one way I've been trying to find some of these ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_AwardYes, awards always have a component of politics in them, but it's useful to look at these for a zero'th order approximation of at least some of the important ideas in our field. I've been working through each laureate's important works to try to find the key ideas. It's slow going, but yielding some good results so far...