Category:Donald Ervin Knuth

Donald Knuth
	American computer scientist
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Date of birth	10 January 1938; Milwaukee
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Case Western Reserve University (Master of Science, Bachelor of Science, mathematics, 1960); California Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy, mathematics, June 1963, September 1960); Milwaukee Lutheran High School (1956);
Doctoral advisor	Marshall Hall;
Doctoral student	Leonidas J. Guibas; Michael Fredman; Scott Kim; Vaughan Pratt; Robert Sedgewick; Jeffrey Vitter; Andrei Broder;
Occupation	mathematician; computer scientist; historian of mathematics; writer; programmer; university teacher;
Employer	Stanford University; Burroughs Corporation (1960, 1968); Institute for Defense Analyses (1968, 1969);
Member of	Royal Society (2003); French Academy of Sciences (1992); Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; American Mathematical Society; National Academy of Sciences (1975); American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973); Russian Academy of Sciences (2008); Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1998); National Academy of Engineering (1981); Association for Computing Machinery (1982); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; American Philosophical Society (2012);
Field of work	combinatorics; computer science; analysis of algorithms;
Notable work	CWEB; Literate programming; The Art of Computer Programming; WEB; Computer Modern; METAFONT; TeX;
Award received	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1972, 1973); Turing Award (1974, The Art of Computer Programming); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1995); Harvey Prize (1995); National Medal of Science (1979, Jimmy Carter); Faraday Medal (2011); Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971); Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1978); Fellow of the Royal Society (2003); Turing Lecture (2011); Computer History Museum fellow (1998); Franklin Medal (1988); Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (1996); ACM Software System Award (1986); W. Wallace McDowell Award (1980); Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1975, 1993); BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010); Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986); Benjamin Franklin Medal (1988); Lester Randolph Ford Award (1993); John von Neumann Lecture (2016); doctor honoris causa (ETH Zurich, 2005); doctor honoris causa (University of Tübingen, 2001);
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