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	Donald Knuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Knuth 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".
		Knuth's first "mathematical" article was a short paper submitted to a "science talent search" contest for high-school seniors in 1955, and published in 1960, in which he discussed number systems where the radix was negative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Knuth (1595 words)

	STANFORD Magazine: May/June 2006 > Features > Donald Knuth
		Knuth took it upon himself to find a solution, even though his typesetting experience was limited to a high school job at a print shop and some experiments with the offset press his father had kept in the basement.
		Knuth, trying to train his programmer’s brain to think like an artist’s, wanted to create a program that would understand why each stroke in a typeface would be pleasing to the eye.
		Knuth was one of the first people to pronounce computer programming an art, believing that even the programs that crunch your taxes and produce your bank statements should be elegant.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html (2777 words)

	Dancing Links - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the remainder of this article discusses the details of an implementation technique for Algorithm X, the reader is strongly encouraged to read the Algorithm X article first.
		Knuth observed that a naive implementation of his Algorithm X would spend an inordinate amount of time searching for 1s.
		Knuth's paper gives a clear picture of these relationships and how the node removal and reinsertion works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dancing_Links (1547 words)

	Donald Knuth at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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".
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Donald_Knuth.html (555 words)

	Donald Knuth Biography
		Donald Knuth sculpted more practical things that are affecting the present and will affect our future.
		Knuth was challenged by a "challenge problem" given to him by his math professor.
		Knuth was granted a position as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1963.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/n/p/npn108/assignment_5_ss1.htm (780 words)

	Donald Knuth Interviews
		Knuth talked about his new typesetting system for the first time in public.” Knuth was preaching to the choir; the assembled mathematicians were familiar with how printing quality had declined.
		Knuth says he will limit his work to repairing the rare bugs brought to his attention; with each fix he assigns one more digit to the version number so that it tends to pi (the current version is 3.14159).
		Donald Knuth is updating all three volumes of his definitive series, The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most well-known works in computer science.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Knuth/donald_knuth_interviews.shtml (5980 words)

	TrueTeX Software -- Donald Knuth's Reward Check
		Donald Knuth's wit, humility, and mastery of technology are nowhere better exhibited than in his recognition of those persons who discover errors in his programs.
		Ironically, Knuth's mastery of numbers must have been severely tested over the years, as he must have had to deal with a checkbook continually out of balance from so many open items.
		In 2002, Knuth stated at an AMS-sponsored lecture that, "There has been no error reported in TeX since 1994 or 1995," and that he would not consider the evaluation of new reports until about 2003.
	truetex.com /knuthchk.htm (677 words)

	Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Science
		Donald Knuth is one of today’s most preeminent computer scientists.
		Knuth was given the Turing award in 1974 in thanks for his invaluable contributions to programming language design, the analysis of algorithms, and his series of books, The Art of Computer Programming.
		Knuth was given the first chair of the new Stanford computer science department where he remained until 1993 when he retired as “Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming”.
	cs.wlu.edu /~whaleyt/classes/313/Turing/Dietz-Knuth.html (631 words)

	School of Information Science - Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donald Knuth is best known for authoring one of the most respected references in the computer science field, "The Art of Computer Programming." He has also worked in the fields of the theoretical computer science and the analysis of algorithms.
		Knuth is the creator of the TeX typesetting system and of the Metafont font design system.
		Knuth earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1963.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/knuth.html (200 words)

	DONALD KNUTH
		Donald Knuth was born in 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
		Knuth has carried out pioneering work in compilers, generally considered a tough task in computer science.
		His most notable success was the development of LR(K) parsing, a general method that significantly streamlined the process of determining the grammatical rules that define a string of words.
	www.algana.co.uk /FamousNames/K/Knuth.htm (258 words)

	Knuth (print-only)
		Donald attended Lutheran schools and from the special emphasis that was placed on English grammar in these schools came Knuth's love of investigating sentence structure.
		The problem was that Knuth did not believe in himself at this stage in his life and so his teachers doubted whether he had the personality, in particular the confidence, to succeed.
		One day when Knuth was meant to be performing with the College band he missed the bus taking the band to the performance so, finding himself with free time, he tried to solve a challenge problem that one of his mathematics professors had set.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Printonly/Knuth.html (2256 words)

	DONALD KNUTH-CLB Interview 12/7/93 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donald E. Knuth, is considered by many to be the world's pre- eminent computer scientist.
		Knuth: Well, AI interacts a lot with Volume IV; AI researchers use the combinatorial techniques that I'm studying, so there is a lot of literature there that is quite relevant.
		Knuth: Sure, but it still took many, many years to finish TeX. I decided that the only way I would be able to finish The Art of Computer Programming is by going into full-time writing, and being a hermit, and telling people "No." It was hard to adjust the first couple of years.
	tex.loria.fr /historique/interviews/knuth-clb1993.html (5481 words)

	Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers. Ch.2 Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science
		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)

	AllRefer.com - Donald Ervin Knuth (Computers And Computing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Donald Ervin Knuth[nOOth, kunOOth´] Pronunciation Key, 1938–;, American mathematician and computer scientist, b.
		While still a graduate student, Knuth was contracted to write a book about the construction of computer compilers (see programming language).
		Disappointed with the state of computer typesetting, Knuth developed a typesetting program that has become the standard for mathematics and physics.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Knuth-Do.html (259 words)

	The Artwork of Jin Wicked \|\| A Portrait of Donald Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donald Knuth is probably best known for his ongoing work, The Art of Computer Programming, and the creation of TeX (the Greek letters tau epsilon chi, pronounced "tech"), a digital typography system.
		To complete this artwork, I researched many images of Knuth as well as his personal homepage, and took into consideration much commentary from the individual that commissioned the painting.
		Knuth sees it as the compliment we both intended it to be.
	tex.loria.fr /historique/jinwicked/donaldknuth.html (486 words)

	Knuth Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Knuth Prize winner is selected by a Prize Committee consisting of 6 individuals selected by the SIGACT and TCMFC Chairs.
		The Donald E. Knuth prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science is awarded every 1.5 years by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computing Theory (SIGACT) and the IEEE Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing.
		Knuth's work is distinguished by its integration of theoretical analyses and practical real-world concerns.
	sigact.acm.org /prizes/knuth (383 words)

	Knuth 3:16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Welcome to Knuth 3:16, a commemoration of one of the great computer scientists of ancient times, Donald Ervin Knuth.
		Knuth was probably born in the twentieth or early twentieth-first century.
		Here we celebrate Knuth using one of his own tricks: We examine the sixteenth sentence (zero-based, of course) of the third chapter of each of his surviving books.
	www.larry.denenberg.com /Knuth-3-16 (260 words)

	Donald Knuth wins Kyoto Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Donald Knuth, a computer scientist at Stanford University, was one of three winners of the 1996 Kyoto Prizes for lifetime achievement inthe arts and sciences.
		Donald Knuth has made numerous contributions to mathematics and to computer science.
		People who love good typesetting and beautiful books, especially those who need to typeset mathematics, know Knuth as the author of the TeX typesetting system which has become the standard in many fields.
	www.maa.org /past/knuth.html (184 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 (394 words)

	DBLP: Donald E. Knuth
		Donald E. Knuth, Rajeev Motwani, Boris Pittel: Stable Husbands.
		Donald E. Knuth: A proposal for input-output conventions in ALGOL 60.
		Donald E. Knuth, Jack N. Merner: ALGOL 60 confidential.
	www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/k/Knuth:Donald_E=.html (850 words)

	Donald E. Knuth : MyFonts
		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 /person/knuth/donald/e (479 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3 - Donald E. Knuth - Hardcover - REV
		Knuth is eminent for his pioneering work on algorithms and programming techniques, for his invention of T
		Donald E. Knuth was born on January 10, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
		Knuth began in 1962 to prepare textbooks about programming techniques, and this work evolved into a projected seven-volume series entitled The Art of Computer Programming.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /textbooks/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=0ERW64SW85&btob=Y&isbn=0201896834 (1732 words)

	Amazon.com: The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set: Books: Donald E. Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Another reason, in my humble opinion, that Knuth probably holds to MIX is that the latest generation of programmers do not have a clue what it is like to program a machine directly, or what is happening underneath the hood.
		Knuth has gone one step further of including pseudo-code by providing precise code in a machine language that he has precisely described.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201485419?v=glance (2792 words)

	Bookpool: Exclusive Excerpt from Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming
		Rather than waiting for the complete book, Dr. Knuth and Addison-Wesley have elected to publish it in installments ("fascicles") à la Charles Dickens.
		Knuth's original multi-volume work has long been recognized as the definitive description of classical computer science.
		In the final plan, all of these will be rolled up into the complete work of Volume 4 — look for it at Bookpool in the year 2007 (we're not taking pre-orders yet on that!).
	www.bookpool.com /.x/ongd4btot0/ct/163 (532 words)

	TeXbook, The - $31.49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By Donald E. Knuth, Donald E. Knuth, Silvio Levy.
		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.
	www.awprofessional.com /catalog/product.asp?product_id={16E33B16-3694-4D37-AD7E-FE0E1ABAD078} (238 words)

	SCPD - Donald E. Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 (569 words)

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