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		       "All Questions Answered"
			   Donald E. Knuth

			 LSRC Love Auditorium
			Saturday, May 16, 1pm

	   Reception following, in the LSRC Hall of Science


In this talk, Don Knuth will discuss a variety of activities he's
been involved with during his career, and he'll fill us in on current
plans for his main work, The Art of Computer Programming. Volumes 4A, 
4B, 4C, and 5 are planned to be out by the year 2009. Don will demonstrate
the Gilbreath principle via some combinatorial card tricks with various
applications including the use of multiple disks in computer systems.
Best of all, Don will devote most of the talk to a question-and-answer
session, from which the title of the talk derives.  Don't miss it!

Brief Bio:  Don Knuth is Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer
Programming at Stanford University.  His academic title reflects his
main life's work--the writing of The Art of Computer Programming
(http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html)--
a work-still-in-progress that is widely credited with establishing and
defining computer science as a rigorous intellectual field of study.
The three volumes published so far have been translated into many
languages and have sold more than a million copies.

Don is the ``father'' of several subareas of computer science,
including the analysis of algorithms, LR(k) and LL(k) parsing,
attribute grammars, empirical study of programming languages, and
literate programming.  His best-known research in mathematics is
represented by the Knuth-Bendix algorithm for word problems, the
Schensted-Knuth correspondence between matrices and tableaux, and an
analysis of the big bang that occurs in the evolution of random graphs.
As a university professor, he introduced a variety of new courses into
the curriculum, notably Concrete Mathematics.  And as a programmer, he
wrote software systems called TeX and METAFONT that are used for the
majority of today's mathematical publications and now have more than a
million users worldwide. 

Don will be receiving an honorary doctorate from Duke at this year's
graduation ceremonies.  During a previous visit to Duke in December 1994,
he gave some Undergraduate Math Lectures and a keynote address as part 
of the LSRC dedication ceremonies.



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Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129
E-mail:  driggs@cs.duke.edu	Phone: (919) 660-6538