Awards & Winners

Donald Knuth

Date of Birth 10-January-1938
Place of Birth Milwaukee
(Wisconsin, United States of America, Area code 414)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Don Knuth, Donald Ervin Knuth, 唐納德·歐文·克努斯, Donald E. Knuth
Profession Mathematician, Programmer, Writer, Computer Scientist
Quotes
  • Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it
  • Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been 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. 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. As a member of the academic and scientific community, Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents. He has expressed his disagreement directly to both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organization.

Awards by Donald Knuth

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1979


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his significant rsearch into the mathematical analysis and design of efficient computer algorithms and for his profoundly influential books which have codified fundamental knowldge at the core of computer programming.)

1974


Turing Award
(For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to The Art of Computer Programming through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title)