Awarded John von Neumann Prize (2016).
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Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
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science · American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938) · mathematician · computer scientist · historian of mathematics · writer · programmer · university teacher · engineer · academic · type designer · also Donald Knuth, Donald E. Knuth, Don Knuth, Donald Ervin Knuth, D.E.K., DEK
Born 10 January 1938 · Q17457
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2016· 2 entries
Completed a piece for organ, Fantasia Apocalyptica, which he calls a "translation of the Greek text of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine into music"
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the American Philosophical Society
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Turing Talk (2011).
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Won Faraday Medal (2011).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
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For his outstanding contributions to mathematics
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2008· 1 entry
Due to bank fraud, and now gives each error finder a "certificate of deposit" from a publicly listed balance in his fictitious "Bank of San Serriffe"
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (2005).
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp (2003).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2003).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I (1997).
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (1996).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University (1996).
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Was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in the field of Mathematical Sciences from the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University in Brno
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1995· 3 entries
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1995).
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Awarded Harvey Prize (1995).
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Knuth wrote the foreword to the book A=B by Marko Petkovšek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
“The best way to communicate from one human being to another is through story.”
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée (1992).
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Became an associate of the French Academy of Sciences
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1990· 1 entry
Was awarded the one-of-a-kind academic title Professor of The Art of Computer Programming; the title has since been revised to Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming
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1989· 2 entries
“makes me feel close to all Chinese people although I cannot speak your language”
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His Chinese name was placed atop the Journal of Computer Science and Technology's header, which Knuth says "makes me feel close to all Chinese people although I cannot speak your language"
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1988· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1988).
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986).
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Awarded ACM Software System Award for TeX (1986).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1986).
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1981· 1 entry
For organizing vast subject areas of computer science so that they are accessible to all segments of the computing community
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1980· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the British Computer Society (1980).
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Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1980).
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In recognition of his contributions to the field of computer science
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1979· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science presented by Jimmy Carter (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1978).
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1977· 1 entry
By Frances Yao shortly before making a three-week trip to China
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award for The Art of Computer Programming (1974).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1972).
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971).
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Knuth received the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
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1969· 1 entry
Knuth left his position at Princeton to join the Stanford University faculty, where he became Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science in 1977
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1967· 1 entry
Knuth attended a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference and someone asked what he did
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1963· 3 entries
With mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser, he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, with a thesis titled Finite Semifields and Projective Planes
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Studied at California Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1960–1963).
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After receiving his PhD, Knuth joined Caltech's faculty as an assistant professor
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1962· 1 entry
Knuth accepted a commission from Addison-Wesley to write a book on computer programming language compilers
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1961· 1 entry
Donald Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961, while he was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology.
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1960· 2 entries
Knuth proposed to Burroughs Corporation to write an ALGOL compiler for the B205 for $5,500
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Studied at Case Western Reserve University, Master of Science (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
Knuth created a program to help his school's basketball team win its games
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1957· 1 entry
Under the title "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures"
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Milwaukee Lutheran High School (1956).
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-01-10.
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