PROFILE OF THE 1996 KYOTO PRIZE LAUREATE
IN
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
Field Selected: Information Science
NAME : Dr. Donald Ervin Knuth
DATE OF BIRTH : January 10, 1938 age 58 (as of June 28, 1996)
NATIONALITY : U.S.A.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
1938 Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1960 B.S. Case Institute of Technology
1963 Ph.D. in Mathematics, California Institute of
Technology
1963 Assistant Professor in Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology
1963 Associate Professor in Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology
1968-present Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
University
1993-present Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer
Programming, Stanford University
AWARDS AND HONORS:
1971 Grace Hopper Award, ACM
1974 Alen Turing Award, ACM
1979 National Medal of Science, U.S.A.
1982 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
1986 ACM Software Systems Award
1987 The New York Academy of Sciences Award
1988 Franklin Medal
1989 J. D. Warnier Prize
MAJOR WORKS :
(Books)
1968 The Art of Computer Programming, Vol.1
1969 The Art of Computer Programming, Vol.2
1973 The Art of Computer Programming, Vol.3
1984 The TEXbook
1986 The METAFONTbook
(Papers)
1965 On the translation of languages from left to
right. Information and Control 8
1970 Simple word problems in universal algebras.
In Computational Problems in Abstract Algebra
(with P. B. Bendix)
1976 Mathematical and Computer Science: Coping
with finiteness. Science 194
1984 Literate programming. The Computer Journal 27