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	Donald Knuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University.
		Knuth (pronounced "Ka-NOOTH" [1]) is best known as the author of the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most highly respected references in the computer science field.
		Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures." In it, he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of MAD magazine #26, and named the fundamental unit of force "whatmeworry".
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	Donald Knuth
		Knuth is considered a famous programmer, known for his geek humor: as examples, he pays a finder's fee of $2.56 for any typos/mistakes discovered in his books because "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar".
		Knuth is the author of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated (1991), ISBN 0895792524, in which he attempts to examine the Bible by a process of "stratified random sampling," namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.
		Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures," part of which included defining the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of MAD magazine #26, and naming the fundamental unit of force "whatmeworry".
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	Donald Knuth -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Knuth (pronounced "Ka-NOOTH") is best known as the author of the multi-volume (Click link for more info and facts about The Art of Computer Programming) The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most highly respected references in the computer science field.
		Knuth's hobbies include music, and specifically playing the (A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function) organ.
		He does not use ((computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in) e-mail, saying that he used it from about 1975 until January 1, 1990, and that was enough for one lifetime.
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	Donald Knuth - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) (Chinese name: 高德纳, pinyin: Gāo Dénà) is a renowned computer scientist and at Stanford University.
		Knuth (pronounced "Ka-NOOTH" http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html) is best known as the author of the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most highly respected references in the computer science field.
		Volume 2 of Donald Knuth's classic series The Art of Computer Programming covers seminumerical algorithms, with topics ranging from random number generators to floating point operations and other optimized arithmetic algorithms.
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	Learn more about Donald Knuth in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donald Ervin Knuth, pronounced ka-NOOTH (born January 10, 1938) is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University.
		He is considered a famous programmer, known for his geek humor: as examples, he pays a finder's fee of $2.56 for any typos/mistakes discovered in his books because "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar".
		Knuth's hobbies include music, and specifically playing the organ (music).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/do/donald_knuth.html (369 words)

	Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers. Ch.2 Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Professor Donald Knuth is one of the largest contributors to this pool of knowledge.
		Knuth developed the first version of TeX in in 1971-1978 in order to avoid problem with typesetting of the second edition of his TAoCP volumes.
		That's probably an example for Knuth to strive for as Euler published 866 books and articles that represented about one third of the entire body of research on mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering mechanics published between 1726 and 1800.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Knuth/index.shtml (1383 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Knuth's multivolume work, widely recognized as the definitive description of classical computer science, is now available in an attractive, boxed set.
		As Knuth himself says, it is impossible for any one person to keep up with all the research in computer science, but these 3 volumes do a remarkably good job of distilling the most important results and explaining them with mathematical rigor.
		The most important contents of Knuth's books for a modern computer science student is his description of the major programming structures such as the tree, the stack, the queue, and the list plus his examples on how to analyze algorithms.
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	DBLP: Donald E. Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donald E. Knuth: The Genesis of Attribute Grammars.
		Edward A. Bender, Donald E. Knuth: Enumeration of Plane Partitions.
		Donald E. Knuth: A proposal for input-output conventions in ALGOL 60.
	www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/k/Knuth:Donald_E=.html (837 words)

	ELX.com.au (Australia) - Computers & Typesetting (Volumes A-E Boxed Set), Donald E. Knuth - ISBN 0201734168 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The start of the Millennium is a perfect time to offer users and libraries the opportunity to fill their reference shelves with an up-to-date and comprehensive collection of Knuth's work, as well as to encourage a broad audience of software developers to learn from the complete, robust, and portable systems built by a master programmer.
		Innovations interviews Donald Knuth Donald E. Knuth was born on January 10, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
		Professor Knuth received the ACM Turing Award in 1974 and became a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1980, an Honorary Member of the IEEE in 1982.
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	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd Edition) by Donald E. Knuth 0201896850 - Direct ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		People buy Knuth's books for snob appeal, which is to say that they like to put the 3-book set on their shelves as an advertisement for their own intellegence.
		Knuth has decided that it's too much work to stay current; he'd rather stick to 6-bit MIX assembler code and his precious universal truths.
		Well, Professor Knuth, I have news for you: there are more recent books out there that do a much better job at stating "universal truths" with the added benefit of being easily readable.
	www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0201896850 (979 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| The art of Don E. Knuth
		Donald Ervin Knuth is trying to explain what has delayed work on Volume 4 of his magnum opus.
		But when you consider that most of Knuth's work has been devoted to just that -- figuring out how much time things like computer programs take -- and the statement takes on new (and slightly disingenuous) meanings.
		To them, Knuth, now professor emeritus of the art of computer programming at Stanford University, is irrelevant, abstruse and bothersome because he illustrates concepts in machine code, the lowest-level programming language and the hardest to read.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/09/16/knuth (377 words)

	Agenda Setters 2003 - Setters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not an obvious choice, but in the words of one the panellists this year "a representative of the people who did really sterling work, did the hard work to make things happen".
		Knuth is more than an academic: now retired, he studied and published seminal work on some of the fundamental computer algorithms.
		Maybe not all his books were perfect, or even completed, but they remain influential today, still used as textbooks in universities the world over and by professional developers beyond that.
	www.siliconagendasetters.com /list34.html (97 words)

	Donald E. Knuth : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The second of these is METAFONT, written by Knuth to provide fonts for TeX. Wanting a large number of type designs, all related stylistically, he designed METAFONT such that the font programmer can build in many variations, which a user of the font can vary to get the font needed.
		Unfortunately, despite input from type designers such as Hermann Zapf and others, upon whose recommendations Knuth made extensions to the program, few fonts have been made as meta-fonts; the main complaint is that it is very difficult to represent existing fonts as METAFONT programs.
		Knuth now declares his work in the field of typography is over; his 1999 book, Digital Typography, collates his work on the subject.
	www.myfonts.com:8080 /Article573.html (408 words)

	Citations: of Computers and Typesetting - Donald, METAFONT, volume (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Knuth, Donald E. T E X: The Program, volume B of Computers and Typesetting.
		Although T E X was designed with mainly mathematics typesetting in mind, it has meanwhile been shown to be quite adaptable to other typesetting tasks as reported at the....
		This implies that T E X2PDF is as portable as T E X itself is. Karl Berry s web2c package has been used for the development and for producing a running UNIX version.
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	Readings in Computer Science
		In the summer of 1962 I was on the Univac team for which Don developed a small Fortran compiler using the small-compiler techniques that he and others had mastered.
		There is also a hint of the degree to which Knuth pursues beauty in his work and as something to preserve in the world, including his 11-year effort to restore mathematical typography, an ultimate tool-building act.
		I find high value in the gentleness of the progression and in the provision of concrete examples that can be used in experimental confirmation of networking and communication operations.
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	Donald Ervin Knuth -- Available Books
		Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention ofmethods for translating and defining programming languages to the creationof the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing.
		His award-winningtextbooks have become classics that are often credited for shaping the field; his scientific papers are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics.
		The present volume, which is the fourth in a series of his collected works, is devoted to an important subfield of Computer Science that Knuth founded in the 1960s and still considers his ma...
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	The TeXbook:Knuth, Donald E.:0201134489:eCampus.com
		Knuth warns newcomers away from the more difficult areas, while he entices experienced users with new challenges.
		Knuth's familiar wit, and illustrations specially drawn by Duane Bibby, add a light touch to an unusually readable software manual.
		The TeXbook is the first in a five-volume series on Computers and Typesetting, all authored by Knuth.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0201134489&referrer=yah04 (193 words)

	Knuth, Donald E.: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
		Perhaps no one is more qualified to address these questions than Donald E. Knuth, whose massive contributions to computing have led others to nickname him "The Father of Computer Science"--and whose religious faith led him to understand a fascinating analysis of the Bible called the 3:16 project.
		In this series of six spirited, informal lectures, Knuth explores the relationships between his vocation and his faith, revealing the unique perspective that his work with computing has lent to his understanding of God.
		Along the way, Knuth explains the many insights he gained from such interdisciplinary work.
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	Citations: Seminumerical Algorithms - Knuth (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In fact, the abductive modeling of while loops is only an aid in inverting loops and is not strictly required.
		D.E. Knuth, and E. Donald E., Seminumerical Algorithms, Addison-Wesley, 1981.
		Knuth, D. E.: The art of computer programming, seminu- merical algorithms.
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	Used Book Central Search / author: donald e. knuth
		Knuth, Donald E.: 3 volumes, 634pp, 624p, 723p, vg Addison-Wesley Reading, MA volume 1 is a 2nd edition, volume 2 & 3 are 1st editions.
		Knuth, Donald E.: C S L I Publications Very clean.
		Knuth, Donald E.: Very Good Computers Addison-Wesley Publishing Co (1973) HC Vol.
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	interrogation report: Donald E. Knuth, The TeXbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dr. Knuth decided that as an expert in computer science, that he should address the problem of using computers to create aesthetically pleasing texts.
		Instead of looking for a way to improve some existing typesetting system, Dr. Knuth started with the premise of "What kind of markup system would I like to use when writing a document?" In days long before the web, XML, Adobe PageMaker, or Quark XPress, Dr. Knuth created a fully-programmable typesetting markup language.
		For example, instead of the best-fit, line-by-line approach still used by most word processors and commercial typesetting systems, Dr. Knuth's paragraph algorithm looks for the most aesthetically pleasing solution for the entire paragraph.
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	Open Directory - Computers: History: Pioneers: Knuth, Donald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science - Biography of the great scientist by Nikolai Bezroukov.
		Donald Knuth wins Kyoto Prize - Announcement, MAA Online: Mathematical Association of America.
		Donald E. Knuth - His very own home page.
	dmoz.org /Computers/History/Pioneers/Knuth,_Donald (240 words)

	SCPD - Donald E. Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Literate programming, attributed to Knuth, essentially holds that computer programs should be developed with an eye toward human comprehension more than computer readability.
		Knuth maintains that the very act of communicating one's work clearly to other people will improve the work itself.
		The TeX system for document preparation, which Knuth developed during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is still used to produce most of the world's scientific literature in physics and mathematics.
	scpd.stanford.edu /knuth (579 words)

	Knuth, Donald E.: Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms
		Knuth, Donald E. Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms.
		This volume is devoted to an important subfield of Computer Science that Knuth founded in the 1960s and still considers his main life's work.
		More than 30 of the fundamental papers that helped to shape this field are reprinted and updated in the present collection, together with historical material that has not previously been published.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14444.ctl (247 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: TeXbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This guide to computer typesetting using TeX is written by Donald Knuth, the system's creator.
		Whatever you might think of TeX (work of genius to heinous hack seems to be roughly the range of common views), this is the definitive work by the designer of the system.
		It is also a good expose of the warped and perfectionist mind of Don Knuth, but that's a separate matter.
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	NPR : Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science
		Donald Knuth owns multiple copies of his The Art of Computer Programming books translated into numerous languages.
		Morning Edition, March 14, 2005 · Donald Knuth is legendary in the computer science world for writing a series of must-have reference books called The Art of Computer Programming.
		Part cookbook, part textbook, part encyclopedia, these books are also considered by many to be technical and personal works of art.
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