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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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  • 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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    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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  • Mail Daniel Knuth, American politician, environmentalist and educator Donald Knuth (born 1938), American computer scientist Eigil Knuth (1903–1996),...
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  • TeX (category Donald Knuth)
    and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978. TeX is a popular means of typesetting complex...
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  • recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first, backtracking algorithm used by Donald Knuth to demonstrate an efficient implementation called DLX, which uses the...
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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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    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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