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9 Comments
illegalmemory
Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!
lukaslalinsky
I was in San Francisco a few years back and I was amazed to learn that Donald Knuth not only still lives, but it still giving these once a year lectures in Stanford. Going there, finding the right building in the university, and then seeing this man speak about things I could only barely follow gave me such a memorable evening. What a legend Donald Knuth is.
anigbrowl
Knuth is as amazing as ever.
Very surprising and disappointing that nobody at Stanford could get it together on the sound recording end to give this the clarity is deserves. It sounds like it was recorded on a dictaphone in someone's pocket. I'm not talking about Knuth's old-guy voice; listen to how bad it is when he stops to take an audience question.
OskarS
On my off hours, I’ve been working through volumes 4A and 4B. They are really wonderful, I highly recommend them. They’re not practical for the vast majority of programmers, but the way he designs and writes about algorithms is remarkable, truly unique. The Dancing Links implementation in 4B in particular (updated significantly from his famous paper) is like a work of art, it’s such an intricate and gorgeous data structure, and blazing fast as well. Man still got it, in his 80s.
vrnvu
I had to check… 87 years! Donald Knuth was born January 10th, 1938
Wow.
larodi
He’s dressed in something very vivid and lively, which kind of looks like the sort of world/ethnic dress you had in villages back in the day, but I can’t tell whether is Iranian or Slavic or where in between…?
Anyone care to guess better than myself?
janvdberg
Anecdote: In 2022, while visiting San Francisco, I had the chance to explore the campus. Wandering through the quiet, empty halls of the summer buildings, I was just about to leave when I unexpectedly came across Knuth's office [1]. I had to do a double take—it was surprisingly small for someone of his stature. Yet, in a way, it felt perfectly fitting, a reflection of his unassuming nature.
https://janvandenberg.blog/wp-content/img_1813-scaled.jpg
About the checks: I have not 1 but 2 checks. Small typos, nothing big: but wonderful to have these two documents.
AndrewOMartin
God bless whoever did the subtitles. Knuth's clarity of thought is unsurpassed, but, for me at least, actually hearing him speak is like the opposite of ASMR.
jsbg
I once met Knuth and asked him why he thinks that P = NP. He answered something about the fact that approximation solutions bridge the gap. Never meet your heroes!