Donald Knuth

1938 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Case Western Reserve University, California Institute of Technology, Milwaukee Lutheran High School

occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, historian of mathematics, writer, programmer, university teacher, engineer, academic, type designer

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Turing Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Harvey Prize, National Medal of Science, Faraday Medal, Grace Murray Hopper Award, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Turing Talk, Computer History Museum fellow, Franklin Medal, Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, ACM Software System Award, W. Wallace McDowell Award, Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Leroy P. Steele Prize, John von Neumann Prize, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen, ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Fellow of the British Computer Society, honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

position held: professor

official website: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth ( kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and 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".He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming and 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. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, 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 and CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures. Knuth strongly opposes the granting of software patents, having expressed his opinion to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organisation. Source: Wikipedia (en)