Donald E. Knuth papers, 1962-2015

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39.75 linear feet, 4.3 GB of email files
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SC0097 ACCN 1989-278 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1989-278 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1989-278 BOX 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1989-278 BOX 4 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 4 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 5 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 6 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 BOX 7 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-147 FLAT BOX 8 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1996-148 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 1999-102 FLAT BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2001-078 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2001-078 CARTON 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2001-078 CARTON 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2001-235 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2001-235 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2003-299 CARTON 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 4 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 5 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 6 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 BOX 8 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2004-044 HALF BOX 7 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2011-200 CARTON 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2011-200 CARTON 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2011-200 CARTON 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2014-128 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2014-128 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2014-128 BOX 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2014-128 BOX 4 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2014-128 BOX 5 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2014-128 HALF-BOX 6 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2016-104 CARTON 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2017-128 HALF BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2022-026 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2022-104 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2022-104 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2022-104 BOX 3 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2022-104 BOX 4 In-library use
SC0097 ACCN 2022-104 BOX 5 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 1 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 2 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 3 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 4 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 5 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 6 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 7 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 8 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 9 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 10 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 11 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 1 BOX 31 In-library use
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SC0097 SERIES 1 HALF BOX 33 In-library use
SC0097 SERIES 2 BOX 12 In-library use
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SC0097 SERIES 3 BOX 26 In-library use
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Summary
Papers reflect his work in the study and teaching of computer programming, computer systems for publishing, and mathematics. Included are correspondence (including email), notes, manuscripts, computer printouts, logbooks, proofs, and galleys pertaining to the computer systems TeX, METAFONT, and Computer Modern; and to his books THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, COMPUTERS & TYPESETTING, CONCRETE MATHEMATICS, THE STANFORD GRAPHBASE, DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHY, SELECTED PAPERS ON ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS, MMIXWARE : A RISC COMPUTER FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, and THINGS A COMPUTER SCIENTIST RARELY TALKS ABOUT.

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Earliest date
1962
Latest date
2015
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Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy. The full text version of the email contained in this collection is available in the Field Reading Room; a redacted version, displaying correspondents and extracted entities (personal and corporate names and locations) from Knuth’s email have been published in Stanford's online discovery module: http://epadd.stanford.edu/epadd/collections. 515 messages have been entirely restricted from both the discovery module and the full text version available in the reading room according to federal and state guidelines, and Stanford Libraries policy, for up to 80 years. These messages may contain financial, medical, legal, and other sensitive information. They will be made available in 2099.
Cite as
Donald E. Knuth papers (SC0097). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Terms
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Literary rights reside with Donald Knuth.
Note
Professor of computer science at Stanford University, Donald Ervin Knuth was born in 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a B.S. from Case Institute of Technology in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1963. A member of Stanford's Computer Science Department since 1968, Knuth has won numerous awards for his work, including the National Medal of Science for his series of volumes, The Art of Computer Programming. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Provenance
Gift of Donald Knuth, 1972, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2011, 2014, 2016.
Included Work
The art of computing.
Computers and typesetting.
Concrete mathematics.
The Stanford GraphBase.
Digital typography.
Selected papers on analysis of algorithms.
MMIXware: a RISC computer for the third millennium.
Things a computer scientist rarely talks about.

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