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    Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/ kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford...
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    The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after the American computer scientist...
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    Knuth reward checks are checks or check-like certificates awarded by computer scientist Donald Knuth for finding technical, typographical, or historical...
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  • Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of how it works...
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    (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. Volumes 1–5 are...
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  • Concrete Mathematics (category Books by Donald Knuth)
    Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, first published in 1989, is a textbook that is widely...
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  • Web is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": the idea that one...
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  • Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (category Books by Donald Knuth)
    Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (2001) is a book by Donald E. Knuth, published by CSLI Publications of Stanford, California. The book contains...
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    Frank Yates, who first described it. It is also known as the Knuth shuffle after Donald Knuth. A variant of the Fisher–Yates shuffle, known as Sattolo's...
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    On 19 November 2005, Barbara Liskov and Donald E. Knuth were awarded ETH Honorary Doctorates. Liskov and Knuth were also featured in the ETH Zurich Distinguished...
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  • OMS (aka TeX math symbol) is a 7-bit TeX encoding developed by Donald E. Knuth. It encodes mathematical symbols with variable sizes like for capital Pi...
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    Computer Modern (category Typefaces designed by Donald Knuth)
    of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and was most recently updated in 1992. Computer...
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  • TeX text) is a 7-bit TeX encoding developed by Donald E. Knuth. OML encoding OMS encoding Knuth, Donald E. (May 1989). The TEXbook (PDF). Computers & Typesetting...
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    2021-09-05. (Unabridged version Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine) Donald E. Knuth, The art of computer programming. Vol. 1. Fundamental algorithms, third...
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  • algorithm can be found on the paper "Breaking Paragraphs into Lines" by Donald E. Knuth, published in the book "Digital Typography" (Stanford, California:...
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  • algorithm was conceived by James H. Morris and independently discovered by Donald Knuth "a few weeks later" from automata theory. Morris and Vaughan Pratt published...
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    JSTOR 2325085, S2CID 119584305 Donald E. Knuth, Fundamental Algorithms, Reading, Mass.: Addison–Wesley, 1968. p. 66, Donald E. Knuth, Fundamental Algorithms...
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  • OML (aka TeX math italic) is a 7-bit TeX encoding developed by Donald E. Knuth. It encodes italic Latin and Greek letters for mathematical formulas and...
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  • In mathematics, Knuth's up-arrow notation is a method of notation for very large integers, introduced by Donald Knuth in 1976. In his 1947 paper, R. L...
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  • and Measures" developed by 19-year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed computer scientist. According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system...
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    typesetting program, designed by David R. Fuchs and implemented by Donald E. Knuth in 1982. Unlike the TeX markup files used to generate them, DVI files...
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  • space, and gets in the way without adding meaning. Computer scientist Donald E. Knuth, author of highly acclaimed textbooks, recommends "to state things...
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  • Potrzebie (category Donald Knuth)
    & Games. "DONALD KNUTH - The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". Webofstories.com. 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2018-02-12. Knuth, Donald E. (2011). "The...
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  • never have thought of them or perceived why they were important. — Donald E. Knuth, "The Errors Of TeX" In 2007, Jo Hoppe, the CIO of Pegasystems, said...
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  • MMIX (category Donald Knuth)
    64-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture designed by Donald Knuth, with significant contributions by John L. Hennessy (who contributed...
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  • Computers and Typesetting (category Books by Donald Knuth)
    5-volume set of books by Donald Knuth published in 1986 describing the TeX and Metafont systems for digital typography. Knuth's computers and typesetting...
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    Volume 55, Number 7, pp. 3087–3090, 2009 doi:10.1109/TIT.2009.2018331 Donald E. Knuth (1998). The Art of Computer Programming, volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms...
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    detail about outputs. "Overleaf". "Seeveeze". "LaTeX Base". "Authorea". Donald E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison–Wesley, Boston, 1986, p. 1. Lamport (1994), p...
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  • Patents. Retrieved 20 April 2017. ""Interview: Donald E. Knuth" by advogato" (PDF). ""Interview: Donald E. Knuth" by advogato". "TTFPATCH — a free tool to...
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  • The Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm (named after Donald Knuth and Peter Bendix) is a semi-decision algorithm for transforming a set of equations (over...
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