Donald Knuth

Name: Donald Knuth

Born: January 10, 1938

Computer related contributions

Computer scientist, Author and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.Called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation.Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.As a writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB/CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures.Publications

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1–4Honors and awards

Kyoto Prize (1996)Harvey Prize (1995)John von Neumann Medal(1995)Turing Award (1974)Quotes

"A list is only as strong as its weakest link."

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

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