Quick Facts About Donald Knuth
- Born
- January 10, 1938
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Mathematician
- Notable works
- The art of computer programming
- Known for
- TeX, The Art of Computer Programming, literate programming, Computer Modern, WEB
About Donald Knuth
Donald 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".
Biography source:
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctor of Harvard University
honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
honorary doctor of the University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée
honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University
honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen
honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp
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honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I
honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI
Turing Award
John von Neumann Prize
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
National Medal of Science
Leroy P. Steele Prize
ACM Software System Award
Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Faraday Medal
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
Grace Murray Hopper Award
Harvey Prize
W. Wallace McDowell Award
Franklin Medal
Fellow of the British Computer Society
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Turing Talk
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
ACM Fellow
Computer History Museum Fellow
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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