Re: Donald Knuth

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From: j... Jim Gillogly
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 1990 01:44

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In article <74...@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
>In article <2919.2...@cc.helsinki.fi> mnyk...@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>>Is there any field in Computerland that Donald Knuth hasn't worked on?
>
>Knuth, to my knowledge, hasn't written anything on operating systems or
>artificial intelligence.

He did do at least one (arguably) on AI: an analysis of the alpha-beta
pruning algorithm, which is only useful for things that are a whole lot
like game-playing.
--
 Jim Gillogly
 j...@rand.org

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