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Dr. Donald Knuth, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University, is a seminal thinker and writer in programming, created the TeX markup language, Literate Programming, and the legendary landmark series of books 'The Art of Computer Programming'. He is also one of the few programmers who pays people for discovering bugs in his programs.

Subcategories

• Attribute Grammar Systems
• Literate Programming
• MIX-MMIX
• TeX

Resources in This Category

• Advogato Interview: Donald E. Knuth

  http://www.advogato.org/article/28.html
  Medium long, deep interview, mostly about TeX, fonts, typography; some about Literate Programming, processors: MMIX, Transmeta, Pentium. Gives a good sense of the man.

• Donald E. Knuth

  http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=2de84f4c-8723-4a84-93ed-8de612617561
  Author page: brief biography, links to all his books, interview.

• Donald Knuth

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
  Growing article, with many links to related topics. [Wikipedia]

• Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4532247
  Interview with Knuth, National Public Radio, by David Kestenbaum.

• Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science

  http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Knuth/
  Biography of the great scientist by Nikolai Bezroukov.

• Dr. Donald E. Knuth

  http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/
  His very own page. Programming wouldn't be what it is today without this man. Invented TeX, Literate Programming, author of landmark series 'The Art of Computer Programming'. Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming, Stanford University.

• Innovations Interviews Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming

  http://www.informit.com/content/images/0201896834/interview/0201896834.html
  Brief, insightful, pure text; Addison-Wesley Professional.

• Interview with Donald Knuth

  http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
  Covers open source success, multicore architecture problems, disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, reusable code menace, and urban legend about a programming contest win with one compilation. InformIT.

• Love at First Byte

  http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html
  Featured article about Knuth's work, with recent photos. Stanford Magazine.

• Rewriting the Bible in 0's and 1's

  http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=11960
  Since the 1960s, Knuth has been writing the sacred text of computer programming. He's a little behind schedule, but he has an excuse: he took time out to reinvent digital typography. By Steve Ditlea. Technology Review.

• The Art of Computer Programming

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Art_Programming.html
  Danny Yee reviews first 3 volumes of Knuth's magnum opus.

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