Lauta, Joshua E.

BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

“DONALD KNUTH”

I search about Donald Knuth , and Donald Knuth was born in 1938 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and holds a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from the
Case Institute of Technology (1960) and a Ph.D. in mathematics (1963) from
Caltech. Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and
mathematician as well as a Professor Emeritus (retired professor) at Stanford
University. Knuth has been dubbed as the “Father of the Analysis of
Algorithms” .

Knuth has also popularized the asymptotic notation and he is also the
creator of the TeX computer typesetting system and the METAFONT font
definition language and rendering system. He has contributed to several
branches of theoretical computer science and has also created the Computer
Modern family of typefaces.

Knuth has won dozens of awards, including the ACM Turing Award
(1974), the National Medal of Science (1979), and the Kyoto Prize (1996).
Donald Knuth has been described as the Euclid of computer science. The first
draft of his epic "The Art of Computer Programming" was completed as a 12-
chapter manuscript in 1965. Fifty years later TAOCP is still an on-going
project and Knuth has achieved many other things along the way.