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Donald Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

  • Fame68.0
  • Momentum10.0
  • Developers rank#20
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Born 1938 · age 88United States
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    Born 1938
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Updated 2026-06-21

Donald Ervin Knuth 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".

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