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. He is known as the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures."
Knuth was one of the founding editors of the Engineering and Science Review, which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959
In 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree
Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961 while he was a graduate student.
In 1963, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
In 1963, with mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology
Their child John Martin Knuth was born in 1965
Their child Jennifer Sierra Knuth was born in 1966
In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.
First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
Turing award
Lester R. Ford Award, 1975 and 1993
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer
National Medal of Science
Franklin Medal
In 1995, Knuth wrote the foreword to the book A=B by Marko Petkovšek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger.[20] Knuth is also an occasional contributor of language puzzles to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.
John von Neumann Medal
Harvey Prize from the Technion
Kyoto Prize
Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental early work in the history of computing algorithms, development of the TeX typesetting language, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science."
In 2006, Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent surgery in December that year and started "a little bit of radiation therapy... as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good", as he reported in his video autobiography.