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Interview with Donald Knuth
Donald E. Knuth completed his undergraduate studies at Case Institute of Technology in 1960. He obtained a Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology in 1963, under the direction of Marshall Hall, Jr. He joined Stanford University as Professor of Computer Science in 1968. In 1993 he became Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming, at Stanford University. Professor Knuth has held visiting positions at the University of Oslo (1972–1973) and the University of Oxford (2002–2017). He has spoken at many conferences, including an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice in 1970; the American Mathematical Society’s Gibbs Lecture in 1978; the SIAM von Neumann Lecture in 2016. Professor Knuth has received several awards, including the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 1974, the Medal of Science from President Carter in 1979, the American Mathematical Society’s Steele Prize for expository writing in 1986, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 1988, the Adelskold Medal from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1994, the Harvey Prize from the Technion in 1995, the IEEE’s John von Neumann Medal in 1995, the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology in 1996, the 2010 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, and the IET’s Michael Faraday Medal in 2011. Knuth was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975, the National Academy of Engineering in 1981, and the American Philosophical Society in 2012.
