Dr. Donald Knuth, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University, is a seminal thinker and writer in programming, created the TeX markup language, Literate Programming, and the legendary landmark series of books 'The Art of Computer Programming'. He is also one of the few programmers who pays people for discovering bugs in his programs.
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Medium long, deep interview, mostly about TeX, fonts, typography; some about Literate Programming, processors: MMIX, Transmeta, Pentium. Gives a good sense of the man.
Author page: brief biography, links to all his books, interview.
Growing article, with many links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
Biography of the great scientist by Nikolai Bezroukov.
Brief, insightful, pure text; Addison-Wesley Professional.
Covers open source success, multicore architecture problems, disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, reusable code menace, and urban legend about a programming contest win with one compilation. InformIT.
(April 25, 2008)
Interview with Knuth, National Public Radio, by David Kestenbaum.
(March 14, 2005)
Since the 1960s, Knuth has been writing the sacred text of computer programming. He's a little behind schedule, but he has an excuse: he took time out to reinvent digital typography. By Steve Ditlea. Technology Review.
(October 01, 1999)
Danny Yee reviews first 3 volumes of Knuth's magnum opus.
(January 01, 1998)
Author page: brief biography, links to all his books, interview.
Brief, insightful, pure text; Addison-Wesley Professional.
Biography of the great scientist by Nikolai Bezroukov.
Medium long, deep interview, mostly about TeX, fonts, typography; some about Literate Programming, processors: MMIX, Transmeta, Pentium. Gives a good sense of the man.
Growing article, with many links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
Covers open source success, multicore architecture problems, disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, reusable code menace, and urban legend about a programming contest win with one compilation. InformIT.
(April 25, 2008)
Interview with Knuth, National Public Radio, by David Kestenbaum.
(March 14, 2005)
Since the 1960s, Knuth has been writing the sacred text of computer programming. He's a little behind schedule, but he has an excuse: he took time out to reinvent digital typography. By Steve Ditlea. Technology Review.
(October 01, 1999)
Danny Yee reviews first 3 volumes of Knuth's magnum opus.
(January 01, 1998)
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