Knuth in 2005
Born	Donald Ervin Knuth January 10, 1938 (age 82) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Case Institute of Technology (B.S., M.S.) California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Known for	The Art of Computer Programming TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern Knuth's up-arrow notation Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm MMIX Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence LR parser Literate programming
Spouse(s)	Nancy Jill Carter
Children	2
Awards	SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986) Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971) Turing Award (1974) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975) National Medal of Science (1979) John von Neumann Medal (1995) Harvey Prize (1995) Kyoto Prize (1996) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003) Faraday Medal (2011) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010) Turing Lecture (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Computer science
Institutions	Stanford University
Thesis	Finite Semifields and Projective Planes (1963)
Doctoral advisor	Marshall Hall, Jr.
Doctoral students	Leonidas J. Guibas Michael Fredman Scott Kim Vaughan Pratt Robert Sedgewick Jeffrey Vitter Andrei Broder
Website	cs.stanford.edu/~knuth