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	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)

	Donald Knuth Summary
		Knuth's next project involved delineating what does or does not constitute a programming language; in other words, what exactly is meant by "programming language." He found an economical way to associate rules of interpretation, what he called "attribution rules," thus founding at the same time a sub-field of computer science called attribution grammar.
		Knuth became a professor at Stanford University in 1968, and remains with Stanford as a professor emeritus.
		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".
	www.bookrags.com /Donald_Knuth (3778 words)

	Donald Knuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.
		Knuth is a famous programmer known for his geek professional humor.
		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 (1649 words)

	Knuth biography
		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.
		Knuth was awarded two Fellowships, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a National Foundation Fellowship in the year of his graduation.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Knuth.html (2390 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)

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		One of the foremost figures in the field of mathematical sciences, Knuth has written papers which are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics.
		Donald Knuth is a renowned computer scientist and creator of the revolutionary typesetting language TeX. In a recent lecture to an audience of 350, he fielded a variety of questions about his life and work.
		Knuth began the project in 1962, which was originally planned to be one book.
	www.lycos.com /info/donald-knuth--computer-programming.html (375 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).
		Knuth, or " DEK" as he is often called on the net, wrote the original WEB (for the Pascal language), TeX and Metafont (both written in WEB), and is still actively supporting CWEB.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Knuth/donald_knuth_interviews.shtml (5980 words)

	Donald Knuth Biography
		Knuth eventually discovered his love for mathematics and pursued studies in mathematics.
		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_4.htm (780 words)

	Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Science
		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”.
		Suddenly, Knuth had become a name in the industry and was approached by Addison Wesley in 1963 to write a book on compiler programming.
	cs.wlu.edu /~whaleyt/classes/313/Turing/Dietz-Knuth.html (631 words)

	Amazon.com: The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set: Books: Donald E. Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
	www.amazon.com /Art-Computer-Programming-Volumes-Boxed/dp/0201485419 (3439 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)

	C&I - Eric Knuth
		Knuth, E. & Peterson, B. Fostering mathematical curiosity: Highlighting the mathematics.
		Knuth, E. Teacher's conceptions of proof in the context of secondary school mathematics.
		Knuth, E. Student understanding of the Cartesian Connection: An exploratory study.
	www.education.wisc.edu /ci/faculty/details.asp?id=knuth (213 words)

	The art of Don E. Knuth - Salon
		An example: During the 10 years or more in which Knuth was occupied designing the TeX typesetting system and revising Volumes 1 through 3, he accumulated a 270-inch stack of such correspondence.
		Though the world of programming may have little time these days for Knuth's rigorous analytical style and painstaking attention to low-level detail, his work remains an indispensable contribution to the body of knowledge that is computer science.
		Knuth hesitates at this suggestion, then demurs: "Everyday life is like programming, I guess," he says.
	dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/1999/09/16/knuth/?pn=3 (809 words)

	Department of Natural Resources - People - Knuth
		She is Co-leader of the Human Dimensions Research Unit, focusing on inquiry to (1) improve understanding of human attitudes and behaviors related to natural resources and the environment; and (2) foster integration of social and ecological information in natural resources and environmental management decision-making processes.
		Her current research examines (1) risk perception, communication, and management focused on fisheries affected by chemical contaminants; (2) community-based natural resource management approaches; and (3) factors influencing human stewardship and use of natural resources, particularly fish and wildlife.
		Hites, R.A., J.A. Foran, D.O. Carpenter, M.C. Hamilton, B.A. Knuth, and S.J. Schwager.
	www.dnr.cornell.edu /faculty/Knuth.html (299 words)

	Knuth Biography
		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.
		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.
	www.literateprogramming.com /knuthbio.html (669 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 (472 words)

	Knuth Comments on Code
		Knuth: There is no royal road, and you can't make any complex program totally failsafe.
		Knuth: They haven't yet built a reliable way to reason about these programs, that is, we still lack the mathematical proofs to ensure a program will work.
		Knuth: I think that they are doing OK, the ones that allow you to download corrected programs from the Web and report bugs.
	www.literateprogramming.com /byte1996.html (868 words)

	SCPD - Donald E. Knuth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 3:16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Knuth Hinge Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Knuth Hinge Company has been making hinges and latches for over 35 years.
		Only Knuth Hinge punches the hole or piercing patterns into the hinge after forming to maintain ±.005 inch position tolerance.
		Knuth Hinge stocks an assortment of materials for hinge and latch production including: stainless steel, aluminum, cold rolled steel and plated brass.
	www.knuthhinge.com /p10.htm (275 words)

	Donald Knuth 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Professor Knuth has through his work shown a deep and close relationship to mathematics, especially combinatorics and discrete mathematics and he has obtained fundamental results in these areas.
		Knuth spent the academic year 1972-73 at the University of Oslo and this visit was influential for the further development of Computer Science in Norway.
		In October 2002, professor Knuth was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Oslo.
	www.ifi.uio.no /foredrag/knuth-2002.html (176 words)

	LTSM-Eric Knuth
		Knuth, E. and Elliott, R. Characterizing the nature of students' understandings of mathematical proof.
		Knuth, E. Student understanding of connections between equations and graphs.
		Peressini, D. and Knuth, E. The importance of algorithms in performance based assessments.
	education.colorado.edu /research/ltsm/Knuth.html (404 words)

	Breakfast with Knuth
		Donald Knuth a letter with news of the June 1st discovery of the 38th Mersenne prime on Entropia's virtual supercomputing network.
		I picked up Ernst and drove to Knuth's home in Stanford, where we met his wife and decided upon a breakfast at Hobees, a local cozy restaurant chain.
		Knuth said he hadn't eaten at a restaurant since 1988 - I'm not sure I heard that right, but given his work focus it wasn't out of the question.
	www.scottkurowski.com /knuth (471 words)

	Don Knuth
		Donald Knuth is the Professor of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
		The fundamental paper on LR parsing is by Knuth 1965, but because of the size of tables, not made practical until Korenjak in 1969.
		Knuth a distinctive look, but I wonder how commoners, especially younger commoners, would look in those.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DonKnuth (747 words)

	Donald Knuth wins Kyoto Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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/index.html (378 words)

	The Art of Computer Programming (Donald Knuth) - review
		The tale of how Donald Knuth took a decade off from writing The Art of Computer Programming to create the TeX typesetting language is one of the great legends of computer science.
		It will be a valuable reference for those working on the implementation and optimisation of key algorithms and data structures, but the more mathematically inclined will dip into it simply for pleasure.
		Knuth himself clearly enjoys the subtleties of the mathematics as much as anything: he writes at one point
	dannyreviews.com /h/Art_Programming.html (626 words)

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