Timothy Foster CSCE 221H Pioneer Computer Artist ( present)

Pre-University Donald Knuth had a great interest in sentence and music structure How many words can you form out of “Ziegler’s Giant Bar”? Knuth produced 4500! The judges only had 2500…

University Originally majored in Physics at Case Institute of Technology at Ohio Switched to Mathematics and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s simultaneously First encountered the IBM 650 Computer as a freshman… …and proceeded to write programs better than its own. Doctorate in Mathematics at California Institute of Technology,

The Art of Computer Programming Originally about compiler design, Knuth broadened the scope to include the rigorous analysis of various algorithms Planned to be Seven Volumes, with 3.25 already published TeX was invented as a result of writing this book According to the American Scientist, it is one of the “100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science”

1974 Turing Award Winner 1971: First recipient of Grace Murray Hopper Award 1979: National Medal of Science 1995: John von Neumann Medal 1996: Kyoto Prize 1975: Elected into National Academy of Sciences 1990: Elected as Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming 2012: Fellow of American Mathematical Society

Retired, but Still Working Retired early from Stanford University in 1992 Spends his time finishing The Art of Computer Programming Occasionally gives lectures at Stanford, called Computer Musings