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Donald Knuth
Donald Erwin Knuth is an American scientist in the field of computer science, emeritus professor at Stanford University and several other universities in various countries, including St. Petersburg, a teacher and programming ideologist, author of 19 monographs (including a number of classical books on programming) and more 160 articles, developer of several well-known software technologies. -
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Biography
He was born in the family of a teacher. His father taught accounting, and also engaged in printing at home as an amateur (this can explain the subsequent interest of Donald in this case and such developments as TCE). From a young age there was a tendency to mathematics, physics and music -
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Education
He graduated with honors from the Mathematics Department of the Keisov Institute of Technology (bachelor, 1960). Simultaneously, for significant achievements in programming, he was awarded a master's degree. Three years later he received his doctorate at the California Institute of Technology. He taught mathematics there and at the same time worked as a consultant on software development issues at Burroughs Corporation. -
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Andrei Ershov
A great influence on the young Knut was the work of Andrei Ershov, later his friend. It started when I was a student of the last year. Then only Andrei's book "Programming for BESM" appeared, and we, a group of students, were able to persuade the Russian language teacher to include it in the course as one of two collections of texts for studying scientific vocabulary -
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Bibliography
"The Art of Programming" "Everything about ΤΕΧ", "Everything about METAFONT" "Computers and Typesetting" (Computers & Typesetting) "Specific mathematics. Foundation of Informatics » -
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Stanford University
In 1968 he moved to Stanford University. In 1968-1969 he also worked at the Institute for Defense Studies. Visiting professor of mathematics at the University of Oslo (1972, 1973). In Stanford under his leadership 28 doctoral dissertations were defended. -
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Confession 2
Member of the American Guild of Organists (since 1965), the American Mathematical Society , the Computer Science Association (ACM) , the Mathematical Association of America , the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , full member of the British Computer Society, Honorary Member of the IEEE . Fellowship of the Royal Society of London [en] . Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Honorary doctor of many universities. Honorary Doctor of St. Petersburg State University . -
The Art of Programming
Since Whip always considered the monograph "The Art of Programming" the main project of his life, in 1993 he retired with the intention of completely concentrating on writing the missing parts and putting in order the existing ones. -
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Confession 1
As of January 2013, Knut ranks 37th among the most cited authors in the field of computer science according to the CiteSeer project.
Member of the editorial boards of many scientific journals.
Full member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering Sciences.
