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Donald Ervin Knuth
born 1938
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryDonald Ervin Knuth 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".
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
January 10, 1938
Milwaukee
Citizenship
United States
Occupations & fields
mathematiciancomputer scientisthistorian of mathematicswriterprogrammeruniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Guggenheim FellowshipTuring AwardIEEE John von Neumann MedalHarvey PrizeNational Medal of ScienceFaraday Medal
Notable works
TeXThe Art of Computer ProgrammingComputer ModernWEBCWEB
- Field and occupation
- americký informatik a matematik (1938 – )
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