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Thirty Two Years of Metafont
with Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth will reminisce and talk about things he remembers.

Registration is now closed

When:
Tue, September 20, 2016, 2024

Where: Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA


The Herb Lubalin Lectures are recorded and made available here and on Vimeo with the generous support of Adobe.


About Donald Knuth

Donald knuth
My main life's work has been to write The Art of Computer Programming, a work-still-inprogress that attempts to organize and summarize what is known about the vast subject of computer methods and to give it firm mathematical and historical foundations. (The four volumes published so far have been translated into many languages and more than a million copies have been sold.) As a researcher in computer science, I am more or less the "father;' of several subareas called the analysis of algorithms 1 LR(k) and LL(k) parsing 1 attribute grammars, empirical study of programming languages, and literate programming. My best-known research in mathematics is represented by the Knuth-Bendix algorithm for word problems, the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence between matrices and tableaux, and an analysis of the big bang that occurs in the evolution of random graphs. As a university professor I introduced a variety of new courses into the curriculum, notably Concrete Mathematics, and I supervised the dissertations of 28 excellent students. And as a programmer, I wrote software systems called TEX and METAFONT that are used for the majority of today's mathematical publications and now have more than a million users worldwide.