Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth (born 1938), the American computer scientist

Legal name, Full name

"Donald Ervin Knuth"

Born

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1938; January 1938; January 10th 1938; the United States; North America;  …

Wisconsin; the world; the Americas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Northern Hemisphere; Northwest Territory; the Wisconsin 262 telephone code area; Milwaukee County, WI; Indiana Territory; Waukesha County, WI; Washington County, WI; the contiguous United States; the Central Standard Time region; the continental United States; the G8; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; North America

Wrote

The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, Surreal Numbers, 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated

Occupation

Computer scientist

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Creator of

TeX, Metafont

Gender

male

Nationality

american

Residence

the United States

Researcher of

mathematics, computer science

Educated

Caltech, Case Western Reserve University

Expert of

TeX, The Art of Computer Programming, Metafont

Last Name

"Knuth"

First Name

"Donald"

Employer

Caltech

Main Occupation

mathematician, writer

Doctoral Students

Robert Sedgewick, Michael Fredman

Class

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person, scientist, mathematician, lutheran, writer,  …

designer, Capricorn person, programming language designer, author, award winner, Computer Scientist, academic

Studying

mathematics

Religion

Lutheranism

Born During

1930s

Related Websites

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http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/seminars/knuth/101206-knuth-500.asx, http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp, http://webofstories.com/gl/donald.knuth, http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2441/1/Knuth_de_1963.pdf, http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/,  …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpk-1btGZk, http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807, http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856, http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_knuth, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4532247, http://www.nzzfolio.ch//www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/e41f593c-4e61-458a-8066-50ee1c2989d6.aspx, http://www.heise.de/ct/02/05/190, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb23-3-4/tb75knuth.pdf, http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb21-2/tb67advo.pdf, http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/pdf/1575863278.pdf, http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/09/16/knuth, http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=199, http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_catalog.html?item_id=421, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb22-1-2/tb70knut.pdf, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/4165, http://www.literateprogramming.com/byte1996.html, http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/16_15.pdf, http://bulletin.cstug.cz/pdf/bul964.pdf, http://www.awprofessional.com/content/images/0201896834/interview/0201896834.html, http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/16_14.pdf, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb17-1/tb50knut.pdf, http://web.me.com/ianjoyner/Files/Waychoff.pdf, http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.9.10.12576.3793.html, http://www.peoplesarchive.com/browse/movies/6895, http://archive.computerhistory.org/ics-wpd/exec/icswppro.dll?XC=%2Fics-wpd%2Fexec%2Ficswppro.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.computerhistory.org%2Fsearch%2Foh%2F&QB0=AND&QF0=Id_AccessionNumber&QI0=102658053&QB2=AND&QF2=CHM_ProjectHistory&QI2=Oral, http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1337_part_2.png, http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html, http://www.ams.org/online_bks/hmath1/hmath1-knuth32.pdf, http://www.pluto.it/files/meeting1999/atti/no-patents/brevetti/docs/knuth_letter_en.html, http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-06042004-141331/unrestricted/Knuth_de_1963.pdf, http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/potrzebi.gif, http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth, http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Knuth/index.shtml, http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html, http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=319, http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth

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DBPedia URI

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Middle-name

"Ervin"

Birthday

the 10th of January

Quotes

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"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."; "The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."; "The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."; "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."; "People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.";  …

"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."; "If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."; "God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."; "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."; "An algorithm must be seen to be believed."; "A list is only as strong as its weakest link."

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