Donald Ervin Knuth ([4] kə-NOOTH; born Januar 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, an professor emeritus at Stanford Varsity.
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Donald Knuth |
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| Born | Donald Ervin Knuth
(1938-01-10) 10 Januar 1938 (age 87)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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| Naitionality | American |
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| Ither names | simplifeed Cheenese: 高德纳; traditeeonal Cheenese: 高德納; pinyin: Gāo dé nà |
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| Alma mater | Case Institute of Technology
(B.S., M.S.)
Californie Institute o Technology
(Ph.D.) |
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| Kent for | The Art of Computer Programming
TeX, METAFONT
Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm
MMIX
Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence |
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| Awairds |
- Grace Murray Hopper Awaird (1971)
- Turing Awaird (1974)
- Naitional Medal o Science (1979)
- John von Neumann Medal (1995)
- Harvey Prize (1995)
- Kyoto Prize (1996)
- Computer History Museum Fellae (1998)[1]
- ForMemRS (2003)[2]
- Faraday Medal (2011)
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010)
- Turing Lecture (2011)
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Mathematics
Computer science |
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| Institutions | Stanford Varsity |
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| Thesis | Finite Semifields and Projective Planes (1963) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Marshall Hall, Jr.[3] |
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| Doctoral students |
- Leonidas J. Guibas
- Michael Fredman
- Scott Kim
- Vaughan Pratt
- Robert Sedgewick
- Jeffrey Vitter
- Andrei Broder[3]
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| Wabsteid |
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| cs.stanford.edu/~uno |
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