Curriculum Vitæ

Brief descriptions of my life and work can be obtained by downloading one or more short files in plain TeX format, or by viewing the corresponding DVI or PostScript files:

Brief biography

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Less brief biography

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Software-oriented biography

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One-paragraph autobiography

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For more extensive information, including

• Biographical and personal information
• Academic history
• Employment record
• Professional societies
• Patents
• Principal invited lectures given
• Editorial boards
• Honors and awards
• PhD students
• Published biographical data
• Books
• Videos and Audiotapes
• Refereed papers (P1, P2, ...)
• Other publications (Q1, Q2, ...)
• Reports of limited circulation (R1, R2, ...)

compressed TeX (49K bytes); compressed PostScript (129K bytes); Acrobat format (PDF) (357K bytes)

There's also a published book, containing the information above together with an annotated bibliography and an index to all the papers:

Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth

Son-in-law's home page

Preprints of papers by Don Knuth

Books by Don Knuth

Don Knuth's home page