DONALD KNUTH
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Early Life Donald Ervin Knuth is a prominent living computer scientist He was born on January 10, 1938, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Knuth's parents were Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning. Knuth was greatly inspired by his father and from whom he gained his love
for education, music, and mathematics.
Education Early schooling :Lutheran schools and from the special focus that was placed on
English grammar 1956 he graduated from High School. 1960 he received his Bachelor of Science degree, simultaneously being awarded a
Master of Science degree 1960 Knuth entered the California Institute of Technology June 1963, he was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics for his thesis titled “Finite semi
fields and projective planes”. 1963 Knuth became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of
Technology, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1966. 1964 to 1967 he worked as an Editor of Programming Languages for the Association
for Computing Machinery
Interests his love for education, music, and mathematics Father's Remington Rand calculator. Ziegler's Giant Bar played the saxophone and tuba Case Institute of Technology, Knuth was introduced to the IBM
650, one of the early mainframes Knuth constructed a program based on the value of each player that
could help his school basketball team win the league. In 1960, shifted from physics to mathematics
IBM 650
Remington rand calculator
Interest toward CS His passion was towards music in childhood But he was good enough with other subjects too. Physics Physics to Mathematics(freshman year) summer vacations, Knuth was hired to write about compilers in
his college level which helped him to earn money which led to write about compiler design in 1962
Contributions compiler design in 1962 The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) Volume 1 – Fundamental Algorithms Volume 2 – Seminumerical Algorithms Volume 3 – Sorting and Searching Volume 4 – Combinatorial Algorithms Volume 5 – Syntactic Algorithms (2011, as of estimated for release in 2020) Volume 6 – The Theory of Context-Free Languages (planned) Volume 7 – Compiler Techniques (planned)
Inventions TeX Meta font MMIX Knuth- Bendix Algorithm Structure and Literate Programming
Awards First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1971 Turing Award, 1974 Lester R. Ford Award, 1975 and 1993 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer, 1978 National Medal of Science, 1979 Franklin Medal, 1988 John von Neumann Medal, 1995 Harvey Prize from the Technion, 1995 Kyoto Prize, 1996 Katayanagi Prize, 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Information and Communication
Technologies, 2010 Stanford University School of Engineering Hero Award, 2011
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