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Donald Ervin Knuth (/ k ə ˈ n uː θ / [3] kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University . He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award , informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. [ 4 ]
The Soundex code came to prominence in the 1960s when it was the subject of several articles in the Communications and Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, and especially when described in Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. [14]
TeX (/ t ɛ x /, see below), stylized within the system as T e X, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth [2] and first released in 1978.
Computers and Typesetting is a 5-volume set of books by Donald Knuth published in 1986 describing the TeX and Metafont systems for digital typography.Knuth's computers and typesetting project was the result of his frustration with the lack of decent software for the typesetting of mathematical and technical documents.
MMIX (pronounced em-mix) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture designed by Donald Knuth, with significant contributions by John L. Hennessy (who contributed to the design of the MIPS architecture) and Richard L. Sites (who was an architect of the Alpha architecture).
Knuth claims credit for “The “boundary-tag” method, introduced in Section 2.5, was designed by the author in 1962 for use in a control program for the B5000 computer.” [8]: 460 Knuth received support from Richard S. Varga, who was the scientific adviser to the publisher. Varga was visiting Olga Taussky-Todd and John Todd at Caltech ...
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This is a topic category for the topic Donald Knuth Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. B. Books by Donald Knuth (4 P) K ...