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Thu, 16 Aug 1990 08:32
Donald Knuth
Author: mnyk...
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 08:32
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 08:32
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Is there any field in Computerland that Donald Knuth hasn't worked on?
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Matti Nyk{nen CS Student at Helsinki U, Finland
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Re: Donald Knuth
Author: mcg... Tim McGuire
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 13:29
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 13:29
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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?
>-- Matti Nyk{nen
Knuth, to my knowledge, hasn't written anything on operating systems or
artificial intelligence. (That doesn't mean, however, that others haven't
directly applied his research to topics in those fields.)
Trivia Question: Give the title, date, and journal name of Don Knuth's
first publication.
Tim McGuire
mcg...@cs.tamu.edu
"...I never promised to write about operating systems. Therefore, I'm very
happy whenever I get a journal in the mail, if most of its articles are about
operating systems." D. Knuth
Re: Donald Knuth
Author: s... steve lamont
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 14:38
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 14:38
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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? Volumes IV, V, VI, and VII of _The Art of Computer Programming_?? :-) spl (the p stands for patiently waiting to complete my set) -- Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- (408) 646-2752 NPS Confuser Center, Code 0141/Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93940 "You're okay," said Honeysuckle. "The dogs like you." - Charles Bukowski, "How to Get Published"
Re: Donald Knuth
Author: lsm... Lance Rover Smith
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 18:59
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 18:59
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mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
>Trivia Question: Give the title, date, and journal name of Don Knuth's
>first publication.
Gee, wasn't it an article about metric measurement in Manufacture And Design
Magazine?
BTW, B{)
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Re: Donald Knuth
Author: es... Elliott S. Frank
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 20:07
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 20:07
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In article <74...@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
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>Trivia Question: Give the title, date, and journal name of Don Knuth's
>first publication.
>
Easy. _The Potrezebie System of Weights and Measures_, MAD Magazine 33
(June 1957) pp. 36-37 (Illustrated by Wallace Wood). Reprinted in
_Like, MAD_ New York: Signet Packet Books No. S1838, 1960), pp. 139-145.
Yeah, I know, someone (identifier lost in the shifting bits of time)
posted it to the net some time back, and I saved it.
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Re: Donald Knuth
Author: mnyk...
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 08:30
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 08:30
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In article <74...@helios.TAMU.EDU>, mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
> Knuth, to my knowledge, hasn't written anything on operating systems or
> artificial intelligence. (That doesn't mean, however, that others haven't
> directly applied his research to topics in those fields.)
Was the Knuth-Bendix algorithm for extracting simplification rules out
of algebraic theories originally a problem of abstract languages or AI? The
algorithm has certainly been used in computational logic afterwards..
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Matti Nyk{nen CS Student at Helsinki U, Finland
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Re: Donald Knuth
Author: j... Jim Gillogly
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 1990 01:44
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
Re: Donald Knuth
Author: ma... Malcolm Austin
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 20:29
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 20:29
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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?
>>-- Matti Nyk{nen
>
>Knuth, to my knowledge, hasn't written anything on operating systems or
>artificial intelligence. (That doesn't mean, however, that others haven't
>directly applied his research to topics in those fields.)
>
>[Trivia deleted]
Speaking of D. Knuth, does anyone know if he intends to write the final four
volumes of THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING? The Table of Contents sure looked
interesting. :^)
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"Stripped of its fancy jargon, an object is a lexically scoped subroutine
with multiple entry points and persistant state." -- Scott Guthery, "Are the
Emperor's New Clothes Object Oriented?", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Dec 89
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Malcolm Austin -- ma...@fir.morgan.com
Disclaimer (v.), to disarm an opponent wielding a Scottish broadsword
Re: Donald Knuth
Author: fs... MCCRANIE JOHN T
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 15:42
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 15:42
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> >Speaking of D. Knuth, does anyone know if he intends to write the final four >volumes of THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING? The Table of Contents sure looked >interesting. :^) I recently got a card-pack from A-W publishing that included one asking if I wished to bo notified when Vol. IV was released. Made it sound as if it was going to be in the not too distant future. -John ================================================================================ John T. McCranie | FSJTM@ALASKA | A Loaf of Bread underneath the Bough, FS...@ACAD3.FAI.ALASKA.EDU | A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and...huh? BIX: jmccranie | What the.... ANTS! Argh!
Re: Donald Knuth
Author: Mike Carlton
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 19:34
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 19:34
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In article <15...@s5.Morgan.COM> ma...@honest_crocus.morgan.com (Malcolm Austin) writes: ... >Speaking of D. Knuth, does anyone know if he intends to write the final four >volumes of THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING? The Table of Contents sure looked >interesting. :^) > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >"Stripped of its fancy jargon, an object is a lexically scoped subroutine >with multiple entry points and persistant state." -- Scott Guthery, "Are the >Emperor's New Clothes Object Oriented?", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Dec 89 >-- >Malcolm Austin -- ma...@fir.morgan.com >Disclaimer (v.), to disarm an opponent wielding a Scottish broadsword I spoke with Knuth's editor (I didn't know that he was the editor until he told me) in March '90 and he said Knuth was working hard on volume IV and that it would be out sometime soon. He also indicated that he didn't have much control over when it was finished :-). Cheers, Mike Carlton, UC Berkeley Computer Science ~ car...@ernie.berkeley.edu ...!ucbvax!ernie!carlton Manana
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