 Donald KnuthDonald E. Knuth is Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at
Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including three volumes
of The Art of Computer Programming, five volumes of Computers & Typesetting,
and a non-technical book entitled 3:16 - Bible Texts Illuminated. His software
systems TeX and MF are extensively used for book publishing throughout the
world.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National
Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign
associate of the French, Norwegian, and Bavarian science academies. He received
many awards, including the Turing Award from the Association for Computing
Machinery; the National Medal of Science from President Carter (1979); the
Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society; the John von Neumann Medal
from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; and the Kyoto Prize
from the Inamori Foundation. He holds honorary doctorates from several
institutions, including Oxford University, the University of Paris, the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and fourteen colleges and universities in
America.
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