Don Knuth speaks
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I recently found out about this and I really want to go see it.. who wants to join me?
"Why Pi?" Professor Knuth Annual Christmas Tree Lecture
Professor Knuth will present his 16th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture on Monday, December 6, 2010 at 5:30 pm in NVIDIA Auditorium in the new Huang Engineering Center, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford University.
For those who might be thinking "hey, that name's kinda familiar", yes, it is that Don Knuth, Professor Emeritus (and author) of "The Art of Computer Programming", who for the past two decades or so has also been a near-complete recluse. He claims to come out and give talks every few months or so, but for the past several years it looks more like only once a year, and this is his annual talk this year.
To be honest, I didn't even know he was still giving any talks until I stumbled across this recently. This is one of the great figures of modern computing, right here in our back yard, and I'm pretty sure anybody who has any interest in programming, computers, or math (and probably some other subjects) will find pretty much anything he has to say worth listening to.
So.. It's free to get in and open invitation, anybody else interested in going?
I recently found out about this and I really want to go see it.. who wants to join me?
"Why Pi?" Professor Knuth Annual Christmas Tree Lecture
Professor Knuth will present his 16th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture on Monday, December 6, 2010 at 5:30 pm in NVIDIA Auditorium in the new Huang Engineering Center, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford University.
For those who might be thinking "hey, that name's kinda familiar", yes, it is that Don Knuth, Professor Emeritus (and author) of "The Art of Computer Programming", who for the past two decades or so has also been a near-complete recluse. He claims to come out and give talks every few months or so, but for the past several years it looks more like only once a year, and this is his annual talk this year.
To be honest, I didn't even know he was still giving any talks until I stumbled across this recently. This is one of the great figures of modern computing, right here in our back yard, and I'm pretty sure anybody who has any interest in programming, computers, or math (and probably some other subjects) will find pretty much anything he has to say worth listening to.
So.. It's free to get in and open invitation, anybody else interested in going?