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Leaders in Computing
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Leaders in Computing

by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Professor Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf, Professor Karen Spärck Jones, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, Dame Stephanie Shirley
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
75 pages
2h 21m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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1 THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Donald Knuth, June 2011

While he was over in the UK for a book tour and lecture series, Professor Donald Knuth, the author of the hugely respected The Art of Computer Programming book series, made time to talk to BCS editor Justin Richards about his life and works.

You’re probably best known for your book series The Art of Computer Programming. In 1999, these books were named among the best 12 physical-science monographs of the century by American Scientist. How did these books originally come about and how do you feel about the American Scientist distinction?

The books came about because, in the 60s, when I began, everyone was starting to rediscover things because there was no one good source of what was ...

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