Interesting facts about Donald Knuth

By Aidos.Sadyk

  • Donald Ervin Knuth was born

    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.

  • Katayanagi Prize

  • Turing Lecture

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