Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

First appearance 163: Donald Knuth
Appearances 9
For a list of comics, see Comics featuring Donald Knuth.

Donald Knuth is a computer science Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is famous for writing the book The Art of Computer Programming and developing the TeX computerized typesetting system. He has written several other computer science textbooks, and he offers monetary rewards for anyone finding errors in his publications.

He is also a known fan of xkcd and asked two questions at the Authors@Google talk that Randall gave in 2007.