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Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/ 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. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".

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The Art of Computer Programming,TeX, METAFONT,Computer Modern,Knuth's up-arrow notation,Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm,Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm,MMIX,Robinson–Schensted–Kn… · The Art of Computer Programming, · TeX, METAFONT, · Computer Modern, · Knuth's up-arrow notation,
Awards
SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986) Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971) Turing Award (1974) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975) National Medal of Science (1979) Jo… · SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986) · Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971) · Turing Award (1974) · Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975)
Education
Case Western Reserve University (BS, MS) · California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Born
Donald Ervin Knuth (1938-01-10) January 10, 1938 (age 88) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Children
2
Doctoral advisor
Marshall Hall, Jr.

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Donald Knuth → BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), Faraday Medal (2011), Flajolet Lecture (2014), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003), Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971), Harvey Prize (1995), John von Neumann Medal (1995), Kyoto Prize (1996), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975), National Medal of Science (1979), SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986), SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986) Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971) Turing Award (1974) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975) National Medal of Science (1979) Jo…, Turing Award (1974), Turing Lecture (2011)
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Donald Knuth → Andrei Broder, Jeffrey Vitter, Leonidas J. Guibas, Michael Fredman, Robert Sedgewick, Scott Kim, Vaughan Pratt
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Donald Knuth → California Institute of Technology (PhD), Case Western Reserve University (BS, MS)
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