Don Knuth

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Turing Award
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gptkbp:children 2
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gptkbp:religion Lutheran
gptkbp:retired 1993
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gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Jill_Knuth
gptkbp:title Professor Emeritus
gptkbp:website https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
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