Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
computer scientist, Turing Award laureate, mathematician, Emacs user, TheArtofComputerProgramming, computer pioneer…computer programmer, Programming language designer, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Modern
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a...
Robert Floyd

Robert Floyd

male, deceased (2001)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, liberal arts, computer scientist, Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the ACM, Carnegie Mellon University…TheArtofComputerProgramming, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, semantics of programming languages
Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 - September 25, 2001) was an eminent computer scientist. Born in New York, Floyd finished school at age 14. At the...