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Donald Knuth
Academic

Donald Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

Life
1938 – present
Born
January 10, 1938
Nationality
United States

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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