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Donald Knuth

Also Known As Donald E. Knuth · Don Knuth · Donald Ervin Knuth · D.E.K. · DEK · Knuth
Theory of Computation

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/

Facts
Birth Year
1938 1
Birth Date
1938-01-10 1
Nationality
American 1
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Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards 2
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honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I 2
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honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI 2
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Guggenheim Fellowship 2
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Faraday Medal 2
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2
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Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship 2
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Grace Murray Hopper Award 2
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Harvey Prize 2
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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W. Wallace McDowell Award 2
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Computer History Museum Fellow 2
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Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2
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Franklin Medal 2
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John von Neumann Prize 2
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honorary doctor of Harvard University 2
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Fellow of the British Computer Society 2
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honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow 2
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2
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Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 2
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honorary doctor of ETH Zürich 2
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honorary doctor of the University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée 2
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Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology 2
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honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University 2
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honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen 2
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IEEE John von Neumann Medal 2
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National Medal of Science 2
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Turing Talk 2
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Leroy P. Steele Prize 2
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ACM Software System Award 2
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honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp 2
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Associated With

Alpha-Beta Pruning, Concepts

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.

Credited

Source Wikipedia: Knuth-Eve algorithm

Invented By

Source Wikipedia: Knuth-Eve algorithm

Donald Knuth co-developed the linear-time string search algorithm with Vaughan Pratt and James H. Morris, published in 1977.

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1. Wikipedia: Donald Knuth
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  • Lead section
    Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) 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”.
  • Infobox, Born
    January 10, 1938
  • lede sentence, born-date clause (after the IPA pronunciation parenthetical)
    born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
  • lede sentence, nationality clause (after the IPA pronunciation parenthetical)
    born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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2. Wikidata: Donald Knuth
Wikidata Q17457, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Wikipedia: Knuth-Eve algorithm
  • Invented By: Knuth-Eve Algorithm, Intro, lead sentence
    Donald Knuth
  • Credited: Knuth-Eve Algorithm, Intro, lead sentence
    Donald Knuth
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