Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician born in 1938 who is recognized as a foundational figure in computer science. His work has significantly shaped how programmers understand algorithms and the theoretical foundations of computing.
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- Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers
· 1984 · cited 33,666x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x
- The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: two new functionals and systematic testing of four M06-class functionals and 12 other functionals
· 2007 · cited 28,489x
- An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters
· 1963 · cited 24,292x
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Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/ kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) 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".
Knuth is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process, he also popularized the asymptotic notation. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.
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