Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth ( or "Ka-NOOTH", ) (b. 10 January 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has been called the ‘father’ of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms, and in the process popularizing asymptotic notation.
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<person> Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming".
Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system.
See also MIX, Turingol.
(1994-11-04)