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Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the recipient of the 1974 ACM Turing Prize, unofficially considered the Nobel Prize for Computer Science. Knuth has been called "the father of algorithmic analysis". He is the author of the book The Art of Computer Programming. He contributed to the development of rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process, he also popularized the asymptotic notation. In addition to basic contributions in several disciplines of theoretical computer science, Knuth is also the creator of the TeX computer component system, the META fw font definition language and the rendering system, and the Machine font family. Modernity.
BornDonald Ervin Knuth, January 10, 1938, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
FieldsMathematics, Computer science
InstitutionsStanford University
EducationCase Institute of Technology (B.S, M.S.), California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
ThesisFinite Semifields and Projective Planes (1963)
Doctoral studentsLeonidas J. Guibas, Michael Fredman, Scott Kim, Vaughan Pratt, Robert Sedgewick, Jeffrey Vitter, Andrei Broder
Known forThe Art of Computer Programming, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, Knuth's up-arrow notation, Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm, Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm, MMIX, Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence, LR parser, Literate programming
Notable awardsSIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986), Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971), Turing Award (1974), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975), National Medal of Science (1979), John von Neumann Medal (1995), Harvey Prize (1995), Kyoto Prize (1996), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003), Faraday Medal (2011), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), Turing Lecture (2011)
SpouseNancy Jill Carter
Children2

About Donald Knuth

Mathematician Donald Knuth was born on January 10, 1938 in Wisconsin, United States (He's 86 years old now).

Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, was a mathematician and engineer best known for his work as a mathematician and engineer.

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Donald Knuth before becoming famous

Donald Knuth was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1938 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He was a prodigy, winning a tournament in which he came up with 4,500 words from the phrase Ziegler's Giant Bar. Only half of that quantity had been developed by the competition's judges.

Achievement of Donald Knuth

In 1971, he was the first person to receive the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. In 1995, he was also awarded the Harvey Prize.

Donald Knuth's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is where he was born and reared.

Donald Knuth Collabed with

Teacher Henry Suzzallo was a professor emeritus at Stanford University where he studied.

Donald Knuth Income & Net worth

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