Donald Knuth

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Donald Knuth

   <person> Donald E. Knuth, the author of the {TeX} document
   formatting system, {Metafont} its {font}-design program and
   the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of {algorithms}, "The
   Art of Computer Programming".

   Knuth suggested the name "{Backus-Naur Form}" and was also
   involved in the {SOL} simulation language, and developed the
   {WEB} {literate programming} system.

   See also {MIX}, {Turingol}.

   (1994-11-04)
    

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