Links to any of those recommended reading lists?
The closest I see to such a list is: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/GradAffairs/CS/Prelims/
The closest I see to such a list is: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/GradAffairs/CS/Prelims/
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/academic_programs/graduate/curricul... Purdue's is a little more interesting but still will have to dig into the courses
that's like 10 years ago for me, it used to be easier to find lists of papers on this : ]