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...Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science’s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. After consultation, they followed a dozen other journals’ editors before them by resigning en masse and forming a new open-access journal with a friendlier publisher. Similarly, the Open Access Law Program has 34 law journals (and counting), pledged to making the legal scholarship they publish freely available...
Donald E. Knuth, professor emeritus of computer programming at Stanford University, is known throughout the world as one of the leading innovators in the field of computer science. He is the author of 19 books on subjects ranging from computer science to Biblical interpretation. Most recently, he has been working on The Art of Computer Programming, a seminal work of which three volumes have been published to date...
...Knuth has garnered international recognition for his contributions to the development of digital typography, culminating in his creation of the programs TeX and Metafont, used to develop new fonts...
...Knuth was born in 1938 in Milwaukee, Wis. He earned a B.S. and M.S. from the Case Institute of Technology in 1960 and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1963. He joined the Stanford faculty...
Since his retirement, Knuth has continued to write and to update his software. He gives occasional lectures and performances on the pipe organ...