Thursday, November 8, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Lecture seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Doors will not be opened until 6:00pm.
Event will end promptly at 9:00pm.

Xerox PARC,
Pake Auditorium,
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Advance reservations are required.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 6, 2001

ABSTRACT OF TALK

Stump the Professor! Don't miss this opportunity to ask Don Knuth anything and everything you ever wanted to know about computer programming. He will spontaneously answer all questions posed by the audience.

BACKGROUND OF SPEAKER

Donald E. Knuth (B.S. and M.S., Case Institute of Technology 1960; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 1963) is Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, where he supervised the Ph.D. dissertations of 28 students since becoming a professor in 1968. He is the author of numerous books, including three volumes (so far) of "The Art of Computer Programming", five volumes of "Computers & Typesetting", and a non-technical book entitled "Bible Texts Illuminated". His software systems TeX and MF are extensively used for book publishing throughout the world.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, and he is a foreign associate of the French, Norwegian, and Bavarian science academies. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1974; the National Medal of Science from President Carter in 1979; the Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1986; the Adelsköld Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1994; the Harvey Prize from the Technion of Israel in 1995; the John von Neumann Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 1995; and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation in 1996.

He holds honorary doctorates from Oxford University, the University of Paris, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the University of St. Petersburg, the University of Marne-la-Vallee, Masaryk University, St. Andrews University, Athens University of Economics and Business, the University of Tubingen, and sixteen colleges and universities in America.

DIRECTIONS
From San Francisco:

• Take Freeway 101 north to Highway 380
• Take Highway 380 to Highway 280
• Take Freeway 280 south toward San Jose
• Exit at Page Mill Road and make a left turn, toward Palo Alto
• Make a right turn at Coyote Hill Road
• Xerox PARC is on the left, just past the crest of the hill
• Pake Auditorium is located to the left of the main entrance down the stairs

From San Jose:

• Take Freeway 280 north toward San Francisco
• Exit at Page Mill Road and make a right turn, toward Palo Alto
• Make a right turn at Coyote Hill Road
• Xerox PARC is on the left, just past the crest of the hill
• Pake Auditorium is located to the left of the main entrance down the stairs