Profile of Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, a Bible of its field with more than one million copies in print
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.” Tweets: @nytscience Tweets: @nytscience : Donald Knuth has argued that some computer programs are, like Elizabeth Bishop's poems and Philip Roth's “American Pastoral,” works of literature worthy of a Pulitzer http://www.nytimes.com/...