Recent News

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Check Out My Latest Books

This year I'm celebrating the recent completion of two books that I'd been been preparing for many, many years:

Selected Papers on Fun and Games
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A

(and you can find out more about them by clicking).

Exciting Video

Don't miss the dramatic, suspense-filled 5-minute video that I uploaded to YouTube at the beginning of the year. (Further information can be found on pages 696 and 697 of the Fun and Games book.)

A Surprising Honor

Wow!

Fifty Years of Wedded Bliss

Cheers for my fantastic family!

My Son's First Haiku

Oh, nuts! I've only
just begun and already
I'm out of syllab

Reflections on My Life So Far

Here's an interview on the British Computer Society website, conducted by Justin Richards on 1 February 2011 as I was about to deliver the BCS/IET Turing Lectures (see below).

MMIXware Version 1 Is Now Stable

The current source files for MMIXware are henceforth "100% correct," in the sense that any remaining bugs will be defined to be features. Thanks to the many correspondents who have given these programs extensive use and provided helpful feedback during the past dozen years. These are the most difficult programs that I've ever written, and I am pleased that they now seem to be in quite good shape.

An excellent group of volunteers in Germany will take care of all future versions and discussions, and their new MMIX home pages are already taking shape nicely.

Public lectures in 2011

Although I must stay home most of the time and work on yet more books that I've promised to complete, I do occasionally get into speaking mode. Here is a current schedule of events that have been planned for this year so far:

Tuesday, February 1 (17:00 at Savoy Place in London): Giving the BCS/IET Turing Lecture 2011 #1, "All Questions Answered" (watch video)
Thursday, February 3 (17:30 at the Bute Building, Cardiff University): Giving the BCS/IET Turing Lecture 2011 #2, "All Questions Answered"
Tuesday, February 8 (17:00 at Lecture Theatre B, University of Manchester): Giving the BCS/IET Turing Lecture 2011 #3, "All Questions Answered" (watch video)
Thursday, February 10 (16:00 at the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow): Giving the BCS/IET Turing Lecture 2011 #4, "All Questions Answered"
Tuesday, February 15 (16:30pm, at Lecture Theatre B in the Oxford Comlab): Speaking about "Long and skinny knight's tours", as part of the Departmental Seminar Series
Friday, February 18 (4:00pm, at a place to be announced): Lecturing on "Why pi?" at the Bowdoin College Mathematics Department
Monday, February 22 (7:30pm, at a place to be announced): Giving the Dan E. Christie Lecture at the Bowdoin College Mathematics Department
Friday, March 11 at noon: answering all questions at the Upsilon Pi Epsilon session of the ACM SIGCSE Symposium in Dallas
Monday, March 28 at 11:30am, Google Mountain View campus building 43: a Google Research tech talk (watch video)
Thursday, April 28 at 11:45am in the Harney Science Center, Room 235: answering all questions as part of the Special Lecture Series in Computer Science at the University of San Francisco
Tuesday, May 10 at 4pm, NASA Ames Building 258 Room 127: speaking about Fun and Games at NASA Ames
Thursday, May 12 at 6:30pm in the NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Engineering Center: answering all questions, in a webinar that was broadcast live over the Internet (watch video)
Wednesday, June 15 at 7pm in the Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca in Madrid: speaking briefly at the BBVA Foundation award ceremony (watch video)
Monday, September 19 at 6pm in San José State's Engineering Auditorium (ENGR 189): "All questions answered about the history of computer science" as part of Ron Mak's Speaker Series on this topic
Tuesday, November 15 (16:30pm, at Lecture Theatre B in the Oxford Comlab): Speaking about "Amazing properties of squaregraphs", as part of the Departmental Seminar Series
Thursday, 08 December, 6:30pm, in the NVIDIA auditorium (Huang Engineering Center): A Computer Musing entitled ``Bayesian trees and BDDs'' [the seventeenth annual Christmas Tree Lecture]
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