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Donald Knuth
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Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician, professor emeritus at Stanford University, and the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award. He has been called the father of the analysis of algorithms. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Donald Knuth and Ronald W. Moore published the definitive formal analysis of alpha-beta pruning in their 1975 paper An Analysis of Alpha-Beta Pruning.
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Donald Knuth co-developed the linear-time string search algorithm with Vaughan Pratt and James H. Morris, published in 1977.
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Donald Ervin Knuth ( kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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Donald Ervin Knuth ( kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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Donald Ervin Knuth ( kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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Tex is an open source programming language created in 1978 by Donald Knuth.
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