Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced: /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for, the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms, and in the process popularizing asymptotic notation. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces. A prolific writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB/CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MMIX instruction set architecture. (via Wikipedia)

About Donald Knuth

Residence: U.S.

Name: Knuth, Donald Ervin
Donald Ervin Knuth

Nationality: American

Religion: Lutheran

Associated With: Stanford University

Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

Students: Leonidas J. Guibas
Vaughan Pratt
Jeffrey Vitter
Robert Sedgewick
Bernard Marcel Mont-Reynaud
Scott Kim

Advisor: Marshall Hall, Jr.

Field: Computer science

Awards: John von Neumann Medal (1995)
Turing Award (1974)
Kyoto Prize (1996)

Known for: Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm
TeX, METAFONT
The Art of Computer Programming
Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
MMIX

Birth Date: Jan 10, 1938

University Attended: California Institute of Technology
Case Institute of Technology